On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 07:43:07AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:25:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > What is the guarantee that the names of these slots are correct and do > > not happen to be the same as the hotpluggable ones? > > That would be a bug -- and yes, bugs happen, and we have to deal with > them. My main concern is that BIOS vendors will not fix these bugs, as no other OS cares/does this kind of thing today. The ammount of bad information out there might be quite large, and I think this was confirmed by some initial testing of IBM systems, right? > > Why show this information on machines that can not do anything with > > these slots at all? Will that not just confuse people? > > Only for people who think that /sys/bus/pci/slots/ is for hotpluggable > slots only. There is plenty of useful information available for slots > that aren't hotpluggable (eg bus address, speed, width, error status). Can the userspace tools that are using the existing directories thinking that only hotplug slots are there, handle "non-hotplug" slots showing up in this location? thanks, greg k-h -- 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
