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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/6] PCI: acpiphp: check for new devices on enabled host
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On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Mika Westerberg
>> <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
>> >
>> > Current acpiphp_check_bridge() implementation is pretty dumb:
>> > - it enables the slot if it's not enabled and the slot status is
>> > ACPI_STA_ALL;
>> > - it disables the slot if it's enabled and slot is not in ACPI_STA_ALL
>> > state.
>> >
>> > This behavior is not enough to handle Thunderbolt chaining case
>> > properly. We need to actually rescan for new devices even if a device
>> > has already in the slot.
>> >
>> > The new implementation disables and stops the slot if it's not in
>> > ACPI_STA_ALL state.
>> >
>> > For ACPI_STA_ALL state we first trim devices which don't respond and
>> > look for the ones after that. We do that even if slot already enabled
>> > (SLOT_ENABLED).
>>
>> that is not right, some time BUS_CHECK is even sent root bus.
>> in that case, stop all devices in slots and load driver again.
>>
>> like you put one card in one slots, but all devices in other slots get stop
>> and enable again.
>
> We don't stop enabled devices, we only stop and remove devices which don't
> respond. See patch 3/6.
>
> I don't see how it's harmful. Do you?

then please check with disable_device to put back pci_dev ref,
also may need to trim corresponding acpi devices.

so this patch is helping: multiple plug-in and remove?

Yinghai


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