On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Add missing hot_remove support for root device.
>>
>> How to use it?
>> Find out root bus number to acpi root name mapping from dmesg or /sys
>>
>> echo "\_SB.PCIB 3" > /proc/acpi/sci/notify
>> to remove root bus
>
> Same comments as before: this is definitely NOT the way users should
> use this. If you want to do that for debugging the ACPI notification
> path, fine, but the normal way is for the platform to generate this
> notification. I think the normal way for users to manually remove an
> ACPI device should be something like:
>
> echo 1 > /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/remove
>
> just like we do for PCI devices.
notify way looks more like really physical hotadd/remove.
pci bus/remove and other is not really, because when you are using
/sys, you may still need to hold
one reference to bus or device.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ---
>> drivers/acpi/pci_root_hp.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/pci_root_hp.c b/drivers/acpi/pci_root_hp.c
>> index dc11e81..f5585f5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/pci_root_hp.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/pci_root_hp.c
>> @@ -73,6 +73,12 @@ static void add_acpi_root_bridge(acpi_handle handle)
>> list_add(&bridge->list, &acpi_root_bridge_list);
>> }
>>
>> +static void remove_acpi_root_bridge(struct acpi_root_bridge *bridge)
>> +{
>> + list_del(&bridge->list);
>> + kfree(bridge);
>> +}
>> +
>> struct acpi_root_hp_work {
>> struct work_struct work;
>> acpi_handle handle;
>> @@ -142,6 +148,55 @@ static void handle_root_bridge_insertion(acpi_handle handle)
>> printk(KERN_ERR "cannot start bridge\n");
>> }
>>
>> +static int acpi_root_evaluate_object(acpi_handle handle, char *cmd, int val)
>> +{
>> + acpi_status status;
>> + struct acpi_object_list arg_list;
>> + union acpi_object arg;
>> +
>> + arg_list.count = 1;
>> + arg_list.pointer = &arg;
>> + arg.type = ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER;
>> + arg.integer.value = val;
>> +
>> + status = acpi_evaluate_object(handle, cmd, &arg_list, NULL);
>> + if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
>> + printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: %s to %d failed\n",
>> + __func__, cmd, val);
>> + return -1;
>> + }
>> +
>> + return 0;
>
> This function really has nothing to do with host bridges. Are you
> sure there's no generic function you can use instead?
seems not.
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