Re: [PATCH 4/4] ACPI PCI slot detection driver

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:29:38PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> Detect all physical PCI slots as described by ACPI, and create
> entries in /sys/bus/pci/slots/.
> 
> Not all physical slots are hotpluggable, and the acpiphp module
> does not detect them. Now we know the physical PCI geography of
> our system, without caring about hotplug.

What is the guarantee that the names of these slots are correct and do
not happen to be the same as the hotpluggable ones?

Why show this information on machines that can not do anything with
these slots at all?  Will that not just confuse people?

thanks,

greg k-h
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