[PATCH] pciehp: clean-up how we request control of hotplug hardware

This patch further tweaks how we request control of hotplug
controller hardware from BIOS. We first search the ACPI namespace
corresponding to a specific hotplug controller looking for an
_OSC or OSHP method. On failure, we successively move to the
ACPI parent object, till we hit the highest level host bridge
in the hierarchy. This allows for different types of BIOS's
which place the _OSC/OSHP methods at various places in the acpi
namespace, while still not encroaching on the namespace of
some other root level host bridge.

This patch also introduces a new load time option (pciehp_force)
that allows us to bypass all _OSC/OSHP checking. Not supporting
these methods seems to be be the most common ACPI firmware problem
we've run into. This will still _not_ allow the pciehp driver to
work correctly if the BIOS really doesn't support pciehp (i.e. if
it doesn't generate a hotplug interrupt). Use this option with
caution.  Some BIOS's may deliberately not build any _OSC/OSHP
methods to make sure it retains control the hotplug hardware.
Using the pciehp_force parameter for such systems can lead to
two separate entities trying to control the same hardware.

Signed-off-by: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c
index 0bfc37325923..8df704860348 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 int pciehp_debug;
 int pciehp_poll_mode;
 int pciehp_poll_time;
+int pciehp_force;
 struct controller *pciehp_ctrl_list;
 
 #define DRIVER_VERSION  "0.4"
@@ -52,9 +53,11 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 module_param(pciehp_debug, bool, 0644);
 module_param(pciehp_poll_mode, bool, 0644);
 module_param(pciehp_poll_time, int, 0644);
+module_param(pciehp_force, bool, 0644);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(pciehp_debug, "Debugging mode enabled or not");
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(pciehp_poll_mode, "Using polling mechanism for hot-plug events or not");
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(pciehp_poll_time, "Polling mechanism frequency, in seconds");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(pciehp_force, "Force pciehp, even if _OSC and OSHP are missing");
 
 #define PCIE_MODULE_NAME "pciehp"