Re: [PATCH] pcie hotplug: Change link order of pciehp

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Matthew Garrett wrote:
> commit bf53d46d80486fa613dc345aba5d42a29368056d
> Author: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Jan 27 11:29:02 2009 +1100
> 
> pcie hotplug: Change link order of pciehp
> 
> Some hardware exposes PCIE slots in such a way that they can be claimed by
> either the acpiphp or pciehp driver. pciehp is the preferred driver if the
> firmware allows the OS to claim control via the _OSC method so should be
> loaded first - if it fails to bind (either due to a missing _OSC method or
> the firmware refusing to hand off control) then we can fall back to acpiphp or
> a vendor-specific driver.
> 
> This patch simply changes the link order to ensure that pciehp will be
> initialised before acpiphp if both are statically built into the kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> --- 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/Makefile b/drivers/pci/hotplug/Makefile
> index e31fb91..2aa117c 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/Makefile
> @@ -5,11 +5,15 @@
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI)		+= pci_hotplug.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_COMPAQ)	+= cpqphp.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_IBM)		+= ibmphp.o
> +
> +# pciehp should be linked before acpiphp in order to allow the native driver
> +# to attempt to bind first. We can then fall back to generic support.
> +
> +obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_PCIE)		+= pciehp.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI)		+= acpiphp.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI_IBM)	+= acpiphp_ibm.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_CPCI_ZT5550)	+= cpcihp_zt5550.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_CPCI_GENERIC)	+= cpcihp_generic.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_PCIE)		+= pciehp.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_SHPC)		+= shpchp.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_RPA)		+= rpaphp.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_RPA_DLPAR)	+= rpadlpar_io.o
> 


-- 
~Randy
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