From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755219AbZAaSNx (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:13:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751754AbZAaSNn (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:13:43 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:54019 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751392AbZAaSNm (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:13:42 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: Q: state of pci express hotplug Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:13:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.29-rc2-tst; KDE/4.1.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, Alex Chiang , djwong@us.ibm.com, Trent Piepho , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901311913.00752.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Eric, On Saturday 31 January 2009, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Trying to use the current pciehp code, on real hardware in an > interesting topology (more later) I'm not finding it very satisfactory > at all. I am up to at least three show stopper bugs and the code > is not doing what I really need it to do, so I am looking at a significant > rewrite patch effort to make this code usable. > > Am I unique in thinking there is a lot that needs to be done? > Is there current work in progress to make the pci hotplug work better? > > I would like to avoid duplicate work if I can. I've recently send some fixes against the PCIe port driver which is used by PCIe hotplug. In particular, there's a fix that should make the thing work with MSI-X. Are your fixes specific to the hotplug driver or do they also affect the PCIe port driver? Rafael