Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:36:25 -0700
From: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
To: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, 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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Hi Gary,

* Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 07:42:37AM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > Hi Gary,
> > 
> > * Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>:
> > > 
> > > I am not fundamentally opposed to this new capability but share
> > > the same concerns that Greg and others have expressed.  So far,
> > > I have only tried the changes on one single node system (IBM
> > > x3850) but the below NAK-worthy result supports the idea that
> > > the changes need to be well and widely tested.
> > 
> > Can you send me the lspci -vv and lspci -vt output from this
> > machine?
> 
> Alex, I added some slot number hints to the below `lspci -vt`
> output.

Thanks.

> I am still looking at your other message and will have some 
> hopefully helpful comments soon.  I did apply all 5 patches,
> 4 was a typo.

Actually, I just reworked my patch this morning, and believe that
I have a much cleaner implementation now that should fix a lot of
the errors you saw.

Incoming!

Thanks.

/ac

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