Hi Gary, [I'm gonna take the points in your mail a little out of order] > No, acpiphp should (and did before your changes) register all > hotplug capable slots. All 6 slots (2 PCI-X, 4 PCIe) in that > system are hotplug capable. Emptyness shouldn't matter. If > the empty slots are not registered it is not be possible to > successfully hotplug cards to them. Of course, you are right. I am not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that email yesterday, but I pretty much got it exactly wrong. I think I confused myself between empty/populated vs hp/non-hp. In any case, thanks for the patient explanation. I went back and looked at a vanilla kernel on my machine that has the following hardware configuration: HP rx6600 Slot 1-2: PCI-X under PCI root bridges Slot 3-6: PCIe under transparent P2P bridges Slot 7-10: PCI-X under PCI root bridges Slot 1: PCI-X, !populated, !hp Slot 2: PCI-X, populated, !hp Slot 3: PCIe, populated, hp Slot 4: PCIe, populated, hp Slot 5: PCIe, !populated, hp Slot 6: PCIe, populated, hp Slot 7: PCI-X, !populated, hp Slot 8: PCI-X, !populated, hp Slot 9: PCI-X, !populated, hp Slot 10: PCI-X, !populated, hp On a kernel without my changes, we see: [root@canola slots]# modprobe acpiphp [root@canola slots]# ls 10 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [root@canola slots]# for i in * ; do ls $i ; done adapter address attention latch power adapter address attention latch power adapter address attention latch power adapter address attention latch power adapter address attention latch power adapter address attention latch power adapter address attention latch power adapter address attention latch power [root@canola slots]# for i in * ; do cat $i/address ; done 0000:01:02 0000:8b:00 0000:52:00 0000:c5:00 0000:10:00 0000:0a:01 0000:4a:01 0000:01:01 This confirms that you were right -- we see all the hp slots show up, even though many of them are non-populated. Also, the correct hp entries show up, just like you'd expect. Ok, so all that said, after re-implementing my ACPI-PCI slot driver, we get all the correct answers, but with the additional appearance of slots 1 and 2 (which aren't hotpluggable): [root@canola slots]# ls 1 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [root@canola slots]# for i in * ; do ls $i ; done address adapter address attention latch power address adapter address attention latch power adapter address attention latch power adapter address attention latch power adapter address attention latch power adapter address attention latch power adapter address attention latch power adapter address attention latch power [root@canola slots]# for i in * ; do cat $i/address ; done 0000:49:01 0000:01:02 0000:49:02 0000:8b:00 0000:52:00 0000:c5:00 0000:10:00 0000:0a:01 0000:4a:01 0000:01:01 Bonus points because all that noise during boot went away too. Life is much better when you actually copy an algorithm correctly rather than coming up with some half-assed solution on one's own. ;) So if you could try out v2 of my patch series when you get access to your machine back, I'd much appreciate it. I feel a lot better about it compared to v1. > > > Have you possibly considered a kernel option as a kinder > > > and gentler way of introducing the changes? > > > > That is a good idea. I will work on that. > > Thanks. This will allow everyone to focus on the systems where > the changes are most beneficial and not waste a bunch of time > trying to test everywhere. I will work on this for v3. Thanks! /ac Here is some dmesg and lspci -vt output in case you want to double-check my work: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [L000] (0000:00) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [L001] (0000:01) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [L002] (0000:0a) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [L003] (0000:0f) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [L004] (0000:49) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [L005] (0000:4a) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [L006] (0000:4f) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [L007] (0000:c4) [root@canola slots]# lspci -vt -+-[0000:c4]---00.0-[0000:c5-fe]-- +-[0000:4f]---00.0-[0000:50-c3]----00.0-[0000:51-c3]--+-00.0-[0000:52-8a]----00.0 Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array Controller | \-01.0-[0000:8b-c3]----00.0 Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array Controller +-[0000:49]-+-02.0 Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller | \-02.1 Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller +-[0000:0f]---00.0-[0000:10-48]----00.0 Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array Controller \-[0000:00]-+-01.0 Hewlett-Packard Company RMP-3 (Remote Management Processor) +-01.1 Hewlett-Packard Company RMP-3 Shared Memory Driver +-01.2 Hewlett-Packard Company Diva Serial [GSP] Multiport UART +-02.0 NEC Corporation USB +-02.1 NEC Corporation USB +-02.2 NEC Corporation USB 2.0 \-04.0 ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html