Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:36:46 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
       Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, gregkh@suse.de,
       kristen.c.accardi@intel.com, lenb@kernel.org, rick.jones2@hp.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
       pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 02:31:08PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> * Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>:
> > 
> > The only reported _SUN problems on Dell systems were on the
> > PE6800 and PE6850 systems, which we've fixed with an updated
> > BIOS several months ago.  IIRC the values weren't always unique
> > which kind of defeated the purpose.
> 
> FWIW, the ACPI 2.0 spec did not require uniqueness for _SUN.
> (although there is a strange table that refers to _SUN as the
> slot-unique ID (table 6-1 in spec v2.0b), the actual definition
> of _SUN does not mention uniqueness).

Does your code handle if these are not unique?

thanks,

greg k-h
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