Re: [PATCH 4/6] PCI: acpiphp: check for new devices on enabled host

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Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Mika Westerberg
> <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Current acpiphp_check_bridge() implementation is pretty dumb:
> >  - it enables the slot if it's not enabled and the slot status is
> >    ACPI_STA_ALL;
> >  - it disables the slot if it's enabled and slot is not in ACPI_STA_ALL
> >    state.
> >
> > This behavior is not enough to handle Thunderbolt chaining case
> > properly. We need to actually rescan for new devices even if a device
> > has already in the slot.
> >
> > The new implementation disables and stops the slot if it's not in
> > ACPI_STA_ALL state.
> >
> > For ACPI_STA_ALL state we first trim devices which don't respond and
> > look for the ones after that. We do that even if slot already enabled
> > (SLOT_ENABLED).
> 
> that is not right, some time BUS_CHECK is even sent root bus.
> in that case, stop all devices in slots and load driver again.
> 
> like you put one card in one slots, but all devices in other slots get stop
> and enable again.

We don't stop enabled devices, we only stop and remove devices which don't
respond.  See patch 3/6.

I don't see how it's harmful. Do you?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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