On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:20:47 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> wrote: > This patch moves PCI I/O APIC support from acpiphp to a separate > driver. > > Like pciehp and shpchp, acpiphp handles PCI hotplug, i.e., addition > and removal of PCI adapters. But in addition, acpiphp handles some > ACPI hotplug, such as the addition of new host bridges, and the I/O > APIC support was tangled up with that. > > I don't think the I/O APIC support needs to be in acpiphp; PCI I/O > APICs usually appear as a function on a PCI host bridge, and we'll > enumerate the APIC before any of the devices behind the bridge that > use it. > > As far as I know, nobody actually uses I/O APIC hotplug. It depends > on acpi_register_ioapic(), which is only implemented for ia64, and I > don't think any vendors have supported I/O chassis hotplug yet. Applied to linux-next, thanks. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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
