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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. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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