Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:57:06 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: PCIe Hotplug: NFG unless I boot with card already inserted. |
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Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:39:33 -0400 > Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote: > >> I also checked my modprobe.d/ options, and I am using pciehp_force=1. >> Without that flag, none of this ever works. > > OK - I suspected something like this. Most Dell computers don't support > ExpressCard hotplug using Native PCIe -- in fact, I've not seen a single > one, they explicitly disable it because they have not validated it or > they have and something didn't work right. I'll take a look at what you've > got, but be aware that you are forcing pciehp to load and operate on a system > where they've certainly either not tested it, or tested it and something > bad happened.
Perhaps. But this one works perfectly, except for two driver bugs:
1. Driver does not notice already-inserted cards after modprobe. 2. Driver fails to function after suspend/resume until reloaded.
Both of those are fixable in the kernel.
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