Re: [PATCH 16/16 v6] PCI: document the new PCI boot parameters

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:17:02PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote:
>> Well, to do it "correctly" you are going to have to tell the driver to
>> shut itself down, and reinitialize itself.
>> Turns out, that doesn't really work for disk and network devices without
>> dropping the connection (well, network devices should be fine probably).
>> So you just can't do this, sorry.  That's why the BIOS handles all of
>> these issues in a PCI hotplug system.
>> How does the hardware people think we are going to handle this in the
>> OS?  It's not something that any operating system can do, is it part of
>> the IOV PCI spec somewhere?
>
> No, it's not part of the PCI IOV spec.
>
> I just want the IOV (and whole PCI subsystem) have more flexibility on 
> various BIOSes. So can we reconsider about resource rebalance as boot 
> option, or should we forget about this idea?

As you have proposed it, the boot option will not work at all, so I
think we need to forget about it.  Especially if it is not really
needed.

thanks,

greg k-h
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