linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] ACPI PCI slot detection driver

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Message-Id: <200803041202.09702.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:02:09 -0800
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>,
	Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com>,
	kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com, warthog19@...lescrag.net,
	kristen.c.accardi@...el.com, rick.jones2@...com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ACPI PCI slot detection driver

On Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:30 am Greg KH wrote:
> bad data is worse.

But we don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater; assuming there are 
lots of machines out there with good data (I really hope that's the case), 
this feature seems like a really good idea.

> And then there's the machines with duplicate slot names, how does this
> code handle PCI slots with that?  I think some of the IBM machines had
> non-hotplug slots named the same as the hotplug slots, right?
>
> This stuff needs a _lot_ of testing on a lot of different machines, and
> a sane way to fall-back if there are errors to ensure that working
> machines don't break.

Yeah, I think a good fallback is important.  Might be good to have a blacklist 
along with a heuristic for detecting duplicate slot names...  Anyway, yeah, 
testing will be huge here.

Jesse
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