linux-kernel - Re: Q: state of pci express hotplug

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Date:	Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:01:07 -0700
From:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org,
	djwong@...ibm.com, Trent Piepho <xyzzy@...akeasy.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: state of pci express hotplug

* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>:
> 
> 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.

Can you send us some bug reports instead of making us just guess?

> 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 think we all want to help, but that's hard if we don't know
what's broken on your machine.

Thanks.

/ac

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