On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 09:43:58 AM Rajat Jain wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I have this doubt lingering on, and I'd appreciate if some one could throw light on this: > > The kernel hotplug driver pciehp can initiate hotplug based on what it senses from the HW (button press etc). > > The user space can also initiate the same operations by using "rescan" or "remove" attributes in sysfs. > > My questions: > > 1) Is it safe to mix the above two? Not right now, but with these patches applied: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3466551/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3466581/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3466601/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3466591/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3466631/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3466641/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3466651/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3491811/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3466491/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3473341/ it should be. Thanks! -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, 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