Re: [PATCH 4/4] ACPI PCI slot detection driver

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:25:42PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
What is the guarantee that the names of these slots are correct and do
not happen to be the same as the hotpluggable ones?

That would be a bug -- and yes, bugs happen, and we have to deal with
them.

Why show this information on machines that can not do anything with
these slots at all? Will that not just confuse people?

Only for people who think that /sys/bus/pci/slots/ is for hotpluggable
slots only. There is plenty of useful information available for slots
that aren't hotpluggable (eg bus address, speed, width, error status).

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