Re: [PATCH] PCI hotplug: acpiphp should be linked after vendor drivers

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 01:18:22PM -0400, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> As a followup to 71a082efc9fdc12068a3cee6cebb1330b00ebeee, it's conceivable
> that some vendors may expose PCI hotplug functionality through both vendor
> mechanisms and ACPI. The native mechanism will generally be a superset of
> any functionality provided via ACPI, so the acpiphp driver should always
> be initialised after any others. Change the link order such that acpiphp
> will not be initialised until any other statically linked drivers have had
> an opportunity to claim the hardware.

But this only works for drivers that are built into the kernel, which no
distro does for the pci hotplug ones, right?

So how will this solve the "real" problem?

confused,

greg k-h
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