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Message-Id: <201110230010.37802.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:10:37 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linux PCI <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	ACPI Devel Mailing List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI / ACPI: Make acpiphp ignore root bridges using PCIe native hotplug

On Saturday, October 22, 2011, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> >
> > If the kernel has requested control of the PCIe native hotplug
> > feature for a given root complex, the acpiphp driver should not try
> > to handle that root complex and it should leave it to pciehp.
> > Failing to do so causes problems to happen if acpiphp is loaded
> > before pciehp on such systems.
> 
> Should pciehp be built-in kernel instead of as a module?

Well, perhaps.  Still, though, if someone doesn't build pciehp and
the control of the native PCIe hotplug is granted for a given root
complex, acpiphp won't work anyway.

Thanks,
Rafael
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