Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:19:00 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix PCIe hotplug for Dell notebook ExpressCard slots |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 05:57:03PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >> Fix PCIe Hotplug so that it works with ExpressCard slots on Dell notebooks >> in conjunction with modparam of pciehp_force=1. >> >> The PCIe Hotplug driver has two shortcomings when used on Dell notebooks >> which lack ACPI BIOS support for PCIe hotplug: > > Wait, Dell explicitly says that pci hotplug of express cards is not > supported and is broken on these laptops. This is because the version > of Windows they support on these machines also does not support > hotplugging these devices. > > The current code works just fine on hardware that actually supports this > kind of functionality, as per the proper specs and requirements for this > feature. > > So why try to go through these gyrations for hardware that is explicitly > broken?
Because it is NOT broken. It works perfectly.
There's just a couple of issues in the existing *working* Linux driver that need fixing, that's all.
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