[+cc Pratyush, Yinghai, Alex, Rajat] On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 7:57 AM, shiv prakash Agarwal <chhotu.shiv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is anybody aware of any pcie card which gets detected by root port i.e > link is up only when any device is connected to card? For example: > PCIE USB3 card link is up only when a usb3 device is connected to it. > > Is it possible at least? Or card link will always be up whether any > device is connected to it or not? Yes, I think that's possible. This is similar to the situation Rajat has where the link state of a device can be controlled by some external entity: e48f1b67f668 ("PCI: pciehp: Use link change notifications for hot-plug and removal"). Bjorn -- 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