Re: expresscard hotplug not working

[Mark Lord]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:52:45AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>
> > Just create a file called /etc/modprobe.d/pciehp,
> > and stick this one line into it:
> >
> >   options pciehp pciehp_force=1
> >
> > See if that works.
>
> It's worth noting that Windows didn't support native pcie hotplug until 
> Vista, and so any hardware that works with XP (ie, basically all of it, 
> including Dells) is supposed to be using acpi hotplug instead. I've 
> fixed one bug that led to acpiphp not working on some hardware, but if 
> anyone's still running with pciehp_force=1 then please send me the 
> output of acpidump so it can be fixed properly.
..

My Dell works fine with PCIe hotplug under XP,
but not under Linux without pciehp=1.

I have not retested without that parameter for quite some time, though.
What do I have to do to retest with "acpihp" ?

Thanks.

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