Re: [PATCH v2] Add option to passively listen for PCIE hotplug events

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Mon Nov 03 2008 - 08:46:43 EST


On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:43:14PM +0100, Fabio Comolli wrote:

> On my system (a hp laptop) I have to use pciehp_force=1 to have the
> service driver hpdriver loaded and an IRQ (MSI-Edge) assigned.
>
> Does this patch mean that in the future I'd have to use the new
> pciehp_passive=1 switch instead?

You wouldn't /have/ to - force should still work. However, the passive
option may be a better plan.

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