Re: [PATCH] pciehp: Add pciehp_surprise module option

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Wed Mar 27 2013 - 12:11:14 EST


On Friday 22 March 2013 10:20:43 Alex Williamson wrote:

> > (*) It would probably make more sense to have a list of dmi strings,
> > because it's the PCIe controller that does not set the capability bit
> > when it should. The device (Realtek card reader in this case) seems to
> > behave correctly. The machines in question have been laptops or
> > all-in-one PCs so far, so there should be no problem with dmi matches.
>
> Yep, I think that makes sense, leave the global option for debugging but
> fix individual known broken devices through dmi quirks. Thanks,

I checked with Win8 and it does ignore the surprise attribute.

Regards
Oliver

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