Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix two PEIe hotplug issues

[Mark Lord]

Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:49:25 -0400
> Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:06:14AM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> > > No, it actually does violate the spec.  Feel free to read it yourself.
> > > We are not supposed to do Native PCIe without first successfully executing
> > > OSC.  Period.  If you do, you are violating the spec.
> > To be fair, we have violated the spec before in order to get crappy
> > hardware or to work around crappy ACPI implementations.
> > acpi_sleep=s3_bios for example violates the spec, but yet it is the
> > only way to get certain laptops to suspend/resume correctly.  
> >
> > The question to ask is whether violating the spec will lead to (a) a
> > potential system hang/crash, (b) data corruption, (c) physical harm to
> > the device/laptop.
>
> And the answer is most definitely yes to at least a) and c) on specific
> hardware I know about.

I'm hearing a lot of FUD here, with no details.
Please, tell us more..

Thanks.
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