Re: pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie004: Timeout on hotplug command 0x1038 (issued 65284 msec ago)

[Lukas Wunner]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 02:22:07PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Sinan mooted the idea of using a "no-wait" path of sending the "don't
> generate hotplug interrupts" command.  I think we should work on this
> idea a little more.  If we're shutting down the whole system, I can't
> believe there's much value in *anything* we do in the pciehp_remove()
> path.
> 
> Maybe we should just get rid of pciehp_remove() (and probably
> pcie_port_remove_service() and the other service driver remove methods)
> completely.  That dates from when the service drivers could be modules that
> could be potentially unloaded, but unloading them hasn't been possible for
> years.

Every Thunderbolt device contains a PCIe switch with at least one
(downstream) hotplug port, so pciehp_remove() is executed on unplug
of a Thunderbolt device and the assumption that it's unnecessary
simply because it's builtin isn't correct.

Thanks,

Lukas