Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: Q: state of pci express hotplug | Date | Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:13:00 +0100 |
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Hi Eric,
On Saturday 31 January 2009, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Trying to use the current pciehp code, on real hardware in an > interesting topology (more later) I'm not finding it very satisfactory > at all. I am up to at least three show stopper bugs and the code > is not doing what I really need it to do, so I am looking at a significant > rewrite patch effort to make this code usable. > > Am I unique in thinking there is a lot that needs to be done? > Is there current work in progress to make the pci hotplug work better? > > I would like to avoid duplicate work if I can.
I've recently send some fixes against the PCIe port driver which is used by PCIe hotplug. In particular, there's a fix that should make the thing work with MSI-X.
Are your fixes specific to the hotplug driver or do they also affect the PCIe port driver?
Rafael
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