Re: [PATCH 2/5] pciehp: Don't enable presence notification while surprise removal is not supported.

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The question is what to do when a new card appears and there's no
> attention button.  In general I think we should follow the SHPC flow
> and wait for some software equivalent of a button push, e.g., a sysfs
> poke.
>
> But if pciehp handles ExpressCards, that doesn't sound like the
> desired user experience -- if we insert an ExpressCard in a laptop,
> don't we expect it to just start working, without having to poke
> around in software?

ExpressCards does support surprise removal. so in current code, it
still get online
automatically.

Yinghai
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