On 2013-1-29 6:58, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> CONFIG_ACPI_PCI_SLOT=y in RHEL6, so evidently they have this problem. > > oh, I only checked opensuse that has that set to m. > >> >> Asking users to edit module.conf by hand is not a solution, just like >> asking users to boot with a command line option is not a solution. >> That sort of stuff is fine for a hobbyist OS intended only for techie >> geeks. It's not fine for Linux. > > not sure. add something in command line or conf files. > but recompile kernel is another story. > >> >> If you would give a concrete example of the ACPI namespace info and >> device config, hotplug sequence, etc., required to show the problem, >> we could have a useful discussion about ways to fix it. But if all >> you have is FUD about "this might break and users won't have the >> ability to edit modules.conf," that doesn't help me see why this patch >> is a bad idea. > > Never mind, We should save your bandwidth to more patches. Hi Yinghai, Could we use quirk to auto-disable PCIe native hotplug for problematic platforms? Regards! Gerry > > Yinghai > > . > -- 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
