On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 10:40:39 AM Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <r...@sisk.pl> wrote: > > On Monday, July 01, 2013 09:36:13 PM Mika Westerberg wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 04:01:37PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> > > Given the fact that SLOT_ENABLED is only checked in > >> > > acpiphp_enable_slot() > >> > > (after this patch) and that /sys/bus/pci/slots/*/power uses > >> > > SLOT_POWEREDON > >> > > anyway, should we remove the whole flag? > >> > > >> > Sure, if it is not necessary any more, we should remove it. > >> > >> Well, there is one thing that changes due that. Once the flag is gone > >> userspace can do 'echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/slots/*/power' several times and > >> the slot is always re-enumerated. > >> > >> If that is not acceptable we should probably move the SLOT_ENABLED check > >> closer to acpiphp_core:enable_device() and drop it from here, so that we > >> always re-enumerate on Bus Check event but userspace can only do enable > >> once (we still re-enumerate on Bus Check). > > > > Yes, that sounds like the right thing to do. > > Is it actually a problem if we re-enumerate every time userspace does > 'echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/slots/*/power'? I assume re-enumeration is a > no-op if nothing has changed.
Well, if it's a no-op in that case, then re-enumerating shouldn't be a problem, but is it a no-op? Rafael (who's not really sure) -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
