On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:42:52PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote: > Hi Greg, all, > > This is v8 of my "introduce pci_slot" series, to be considered for > inclusion in linux-next to get more test exposure and shake out > the bugs. > > The major change in this revision is removing an earlier patch > which removed the 'path' sysfs attribute on SGI machines. After > review from Jesse Barnes and Prarit Bhargava, they kindly > informed me that 'path' is actually an SGI physical path, and not > a PCI address. My patch would have definitely broken userspace on > SGI machines, so I eliminated it, and 'path' remains on SGI boxes. > > This brings the patch series down to a total of 3 patches: > > 0001-Construct-one-fakephp-slot-per-pci-slot.patch > 0002-Introduce-pci_slot.patch > 0003-ACPI-PCI-slot-detection-driver.patch > > Thanks for all the code reviews from various people. > > I'm now just looking for some people to beat on this code and let > me know where I screwed up. :) Hi Alex, The x3950 M2 on which the earlier reported Oops (invalid opcode while in acpi_ev_notify_dispatch) reproduced is unfortunately still tied up because of a customer critical project. I have been able to try these new patches on a single node x3850 [2 hotpluggable PCI-X slots, 4 hotpluggable PCIe slots] and a 2 node x3950 [12 total (6/node) hotpluggable PCI-X slots] and found no problems. Gary -- Gary Hade System x Enablement IBM Linux Technology Center 503-578-4503 IBM T/L: 775-4503 garyhade@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc -- 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
