linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4, v3] Physical PCI slot objects

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Message-ID: <20071129010935.GB6199@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:09:35 -0800
From:	Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com>
To:	Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>
Cc:	Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com>, Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, gregkh@...e.de,
	lenb@...nel.org, rick.jones2@...com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com,
	pcihpd-discuss@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4, v3] Physical PCI slot objects

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:02:38PM -0800, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:31:47 -0800
> Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > FYI, the node contains 2 hotpluggable PCIe slots and 5
> > non-hotpluggable PCIe slots but 'pci_slot' only exposed
> > the 2 hotpluggable slots.  This does not appear to be due
> > to a 'pci_slot' driver problem since I looked at the DSDT
> > and SSDT and found that there are currently no _SUN methods
> > for the non-hotpluggable slots.
> 
> Thanks for testing Gary.  I would think this situation would be the
> common case, since I doubt most firmware writers would bother to
> implement _SUN for non-hotpluggable slots -- at least on other DSDT
> I've seen this has been the case as well.  

Yea, I was also not surprised although features such as
Alex working on may provide some motivation to change that.

Gary

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