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

[Mark Lord]

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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