> > > > 1) Does the pciehp support hotplug on both rootport and downstream > port? > > Yes. To be precise, pciehp supports hotplug of PCIe devices below Root > Ports and Downstream Ports. > > > 2) What is so different about these that downstream port hotplug was > part of the kernel since very long, but root port hotplug was included > releatively recently? Are there any added complexities? I couldn't find > anything on the net on this. From my understanding it should be exactly > similar? > > Hotplugging of PCIe devices below Root Ports and Downstream Ports > should be identical. Thanks a lot, I think you are right. I got confused between hot-plug of a device on root port, and hot-plug of the root port itself. No I'm not bothered about the hot-plug of the host bridge itself. I was talking abouthot-plug of a device directly under the root port. So I' assuming I should be good with pciehp then. Thanks, Rajat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
