Re: PCIe Hotplug: NFG unless I boot with card already inserted.

From: Mark Lord
Date: Tue Oct 16 2007 - 14:59:43 EST


Mark Lord wrote:
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:39:33 -0400
Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx> wrote:

I also checked my modprobe.d/ options, and I am using pciehp_force=1.
Without that flag, none of this ever works.

OK - I suspected something like this. Most Dell computers don't support
ExpressCard hotplug using Native PCIe -- in fact, I've not seen a single
one, they explicitly disable it because they have not validated it or
they have and something didn't work right. I'll take a look at what you've
got, but be aware that you are forcing pciehp to load and operate on a system
where they've certainly either not tested it, or tested it and something
bad happened.

Perhaps. But this one works perfectly, except for two driver bugs:

1. Driver does not notice already-inserted cards after modprobe.
2. Driver fails to function after suspend/resume until reloaded.

Both of those are fixable in the kernel.

Ahh.. point 2 in particular suffers from "suspend/resume" not implemented.
Or rather, implemented as a pair of "do nothing" functions.

Cheers
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