From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Hvmloader: Modify ACPI to only supply _EJ0 methods for PCIslots that support hotplug by runtime patching Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 10:57:10 +0100 Message-ID: <1399629430.9513.143.camel__9573.11584284089$1399629557$gmane$org@kazak.uk.xensource.com> References: <1399625235-8216-1-git-send-email-arei.gonglei@huawei.com> <536CBD840200007800010D2D@mail.emea.novell.com> <33183CC9F5247A488A2544077AF19020815E7487@SZXEMA503-MBS.china.huawei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <33183CC9F5247A488A2544077AF19020815E7487@SZXEMA503-MBS.china.huawei.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: "Gonglei (Arei)" Cc: "Huangweidong (C)" , "stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com" , "Hanweidong (Randy)" , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , "fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz" , "johannes.krampf@googlemail.com" , "kevin@koconnor.net" , "mst@redhat.com" , Jan Beulich , "anthony.perard@citrix.com" , "Gaowei (UVP)" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 09:45 +0000, Gonglei (Arei) wrote: > > And it also seem pretty pointless to send a v4 without addressing > > all comments you got on v3. > > > I don't think so. I have absorbed Ian's all suggestion on v3. And for other > questions have been answered too, in despite of is me or not. Actually you haven't answered "Why is runtime patching the only option here?" which was originally phrased as: > > Which appears to involve an awful lot of jumping through hoops... Please > > can you explain why it is necessary, as opposed to e.g. using a dynamic > > set of SSDTs? On an unrelated note I think the provenance of the python scripts (i.e. where they came from), and in particular the details of their relicensing should be in the main commit message for future reference. Ian.