Re: [BUGFIX v2 0/4] fix bug 56531, 59501 and 59581

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sun Jun 23 2013 - 17:43:15 EST


On Sunday, June 23, 2013 11:57:46 PM Jiang Liu wrote:
> On 06/23/2013 03:59 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Saturday, June 22, 2013 10:47:24 AM Jiang Liu wrote:
> >> On 06/22/2013 08:13 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >>> On Saturday, June 22, 2013 12:54:21 AM Jiang Liu wrote:
> >>>> On 06/21/2013 03:06 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >>>>> On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:18:41 AM Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> >>>>>> 2013/6/19 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>:
> >>>>>>> OK, let's try to untangle this a bit.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> If you applyt patches [1/4] and [4/4] from the $subject series only, what
> >>>>>>> does remain unfixed?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [not tested, can do so in 12 hours if needed]
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I think there will be problems on undocking and/or on the second
> >>>>>> docking, as described in comments #6 - #8 of
> >>>>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59501
> >>>>>
> >>>>> OK, I think I have something that might work. It may not solve all problems,
> >>>>> but maybe it helps a bit. Unfortunately, I can't really test it, so please do
> >>>>> if you can.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Please apply [1/4] and [4/4] and the one below and see what happens.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Rafael
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>> Rationale:
> >>>>> acpiphp_glue.c:disable_device() trims the underlying ACPI device objects
> >>>>> after removing the companion PCI devices, so the dock station code
> >>>>> doesn't need to trim them separately for the dependent devices handled
> >>>>> by acpiphp.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Moreover, acpiphp_glue.c is the only user of
> >>>>> [un]register_hotplug_dock_device(), so *all* devices on the
> >>>>> ds->hotplug_devices list are handled by acpiphp and ops is set for all
> >>>>> of them.
> >>>> Hi Rafael,
> >>>> There's an ongoing patch to fix a disk bay hotplug regression, which
> >>>> may add a second caller of register_hotplug_device(). Please refer to
> >>>> bug 59871, and the proposed patch is at:
> >>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=105581
> >> Hi Rafael,
> >> You can find the proposed patch for ATA Bay hotplug at
> >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=105581
> >
> > Well, maybe it'll have to be reworked slightly.
> >
> > Which BZ entry is that?
> Hi Rafael,
> It's bug 59871, please refer to:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59871

OK, thanks!

I suppose it would be most convenient to simply add that patch to this
patchset.

Thanks,
Rafael
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