On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 22:03 +0200, Andreas Noever wrote: > Thunderbolt hotplug is supposed to be handled by the firmware. But Apple > decided to implement thunderbolt at the operating system level. The > firmare only initializes thunderbolt devices that are present at boot > time. This driver enables hotplug of thunderbolt of non-chained > thunderbolt devices on Apple systems with a cactus ridge controller. > > This first patch adds the Kconfig file as well the parts of the driver > which talk directly to the hardware (that is pci device setup, interrupt > handling and RX/TX ring management). > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@xxxxxxxxx> > --- This patch landed in today's linux-next (next-20140620). > [...] > --- /dev/null > +++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/Kconfig > @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ > +menuconfig THUNDERBOLT > + tristate "Thunderbolt support for Apple devices" > + default no That should have been "default n". But "n" is the default anyway, so I'd say this line might as well be dropped. Should I draft the trivial patch to do that? > + help > + Cactus Ridge Thunderbolt Controller driver > + This driver is required if you want to hotplug Thunderbolt devices on > + Apple hardware. > + > + Device chaining is currently not supported. > + > + To compile this driver a module, choose M here. The module will be > + called thunderbolt. (Naive question: is Thunderbolt relevant outside x86_64?) Paul Bolle -- 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