On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 08:44:19AM +1100, Stewart Smith wrote: >Gavin Shan <gwshan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> The patchset was built based on patchset "powerpc/powernv: Simplify EEH >> implementation", which can be found from: >> >> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/439956/ >> >> The patchset corresponds to skiboot changes, which manages PCI slots >> in a unified way: OPAL APIs used to do slot reset, power management, >> presence status retrival. The patchset shouldn't be merged before >> the OPAL firmware counterpart is merged: >> >> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/440463/ > >But this patchset will work with old OPAL, right? We're not breaking >compatibility with newer kernels (with this patchset) and older >firmware? Yes. With old OPAL, the reset stuff in Linux works as before and we shouldn't see hotpluggable slots from /sys/bus/pci/slots. The compatibility issue was pointed by Ben. It's something fixed by this revision (v2). Thanks, Gavin -- 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
