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Message-ID: <20071113213646.GB4426@kroah.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:36:46 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, gregkh@...e.de,
kristen.c.accardi@...el.com, lenb@...nel.org, rick.jones2@...com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
pcihpd-discuss@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 02:31:08PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> * Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.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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