Re: [PATCH 1/6] PCI: acpiphp: do not check for SLOT_ENABLED in enable_device()

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 10:40:39 AM Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> 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)


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