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

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Message-ID: <20071115233817.GD5928@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:38:17 -0800
From:	Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com>
To:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
Cc:	Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, 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 Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:36:13AM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
  < snip >

> Ok, so all that said, after re-implementing my ACPI-PCI slot
> driver, we get all the correct answers, but with the additional
> appearance of slots 1 and 2 (which aren't hotpluggable):

Yea, looks much better.  Nice to see that the addresses
for slots below the p2p bridges now include the child
instead of the parent bus number. :)

  < snip >

> So if you could try out v2 of my patch series when you get access
> to your machine back, I'd much appreciate it. 

Will do.  It still looks like I will not get the box back
until early next week.  I will only be working Monday and
Tuesday due to holiday/vacation but that will hopefully not
be a problem.

> I feel a lot better about it compared to v1.

I haven't tried it yet but I feel better seeing that you
are now testing on a system having a PCI topology that
appears similar to some of our systems.

  < snip >

> Here is some dmesg and lspci -vt output in case you want to
> double-check my work:

Well, I didn't see any obvious warts but I'm pretty skilled
at missing problems when looking at that kind of info.

Thanks,
Gary

-- 
Gary Hade
System x Enablement
IBM Linux Technology Center
503-578-4503  IBM T/L: 775-4503
garyhade@...ibm.com
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc

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