Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:58:47 -0600 | From | Alex Chiang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] PCI Hotplug: acpiphp: get pci_bus from acpi handle correctly |
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* Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:03:05 -0600 > Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> wrote: > > > We cannot simply call acpi_get_pci_dev() on any random ACPI handle > > and hope that it works, because a PCI root bridge may not have > > an associated struct pci_dev. > > > > This is allowed per the PCI specification, and is referred to as a > > non-materialized bridge. > > > > So, depending on the type of PCI bridge that the handle points to, > > use the appropriate interface to return the struct pci_bus correctly. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> > > --- > > I put these in my linux-next branch, just because I'm really > conservative about the current release. > > If we hear of boxes in the wild getting bitten by the non-materialized > bit, we can push this set back to stable.
Sounds good, thanks Jesse.
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