On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:17:02PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: >> Well, to do it "correctly" you are going to have to tell the driver to >> shut itself down, and reinitialize itself. >> Turns out, that doesn't really work for disk and network devices without >> dropping the connection (well, network devices should be fine probably). >> So you just can't do this, sorry. That's why the BIOS handles all of >> these issues in a PCI hotplug system. >> How does the hardware people think we are going to handle this in the >> OS? It's not something that any operating system can do, is it part of >> the IOV PCI spec somewhere? > > No, it's not part of the PCI IOV spec. > > I just want the IOV (and whole PCI subsystem) have more flexibility on > various BIOSes. So can we reconsider about resource rebalance as boot > option, or should we forget about this idea? As you have proposed it, the boot option will not work at all, so I think we need to forget about it. Especially if it is not really needed. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
