From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759411AbYCAOnk (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Mar 2008 09:43:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751960AbYCAOnb (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Mar 2008 09:43:31 -0500 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:51004 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753335AbYCAOna (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Mar 2008 09:43:30 -0500 Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 07:43:07 -0700 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Greg KH Cc: Alex Chiang , Gary Hade , kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com, warthog19@eaglescrag.net, kristen.c.accardi@intel.com, rick.jones2@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ACPI PCI slot detection driver Message-ID: <20080301144307.GD24386@parisc-linux.org> References: <20080229002341.GA21420@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20080229002938.GE21420@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20080301052542.GD19353@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080301052542.GD19353@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:25:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > What is the guarantee that the names of these slots are correct and do > not happen to be the same as the hotpluggable ones? That would be a bug -- and yes, bugs happen, and we have to deal with them. > Why show this information on machines that can not do anything with > these slots at all? Will that not just confuse people? Only for people who think that /sys/bus/pci/slots/ is for hotpluggable slots only. There is plenty of useful information available for slots that aren't hotpluggable (eg bus address, speed, width, error status). -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."