linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects

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Message-ID: <20071113231458.GF7541@ldl.fc.hp.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:14:58 -0700
From:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	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

Hi Greg,

* Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 02:31:08PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > 
> > 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?

I hate to punt on this, but I'm not doing anything that acpiphp
is not doing. If we get back non-unique values for _SUN, I'm
pretty sure both acpiphp and my pci_slot driver will both
continue along as far as they can, until they get an error back
from kobject_register() about trying to register an object with
an existing name.

I think I may have a machine that has non-unique values for _SUN.
If so, I'll try and hunt it down and do some testing.

Thanks for the suggestion.

/ac

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