On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:30:04PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Linus will not be happy with those kind of delay. > > Indeed. And the DMI check is bogus too, since the "there can be > delays" is apparently part of the pcie hotplug spec. It's ACPI PCI hotplug, not PCIe native hotplug. PCIe hotplug spec is not relevant. IIUC, in ACPI case devices should be ready to be enumerated, before you get notification. Rafael, is it correct? > So do the sane thing. Retry a few times, with increasingly long delays > (ie something like start with 10ms, then double the delay until you > hit 1s, and then just give up: end result, ~2s total wait, but 10ms > for any sane device that doesn't suck). PCI rescan is expensive and generate noise in dmesg. We'll end up with tons of useless messages. -- Kirill A. Shutemov
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