Re: Thinkpad docking station: pci hotplug questions

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > I'm trying to get PCI hotplug to work on thinkpad x32 -- it is
> > apparently neccessary for proper docking station support. What needs
> > to be done to get it running?
> > 
> > I noticed some strangenesses:
> > 
> > pcihpfs is mentioned in Kconfig, but I can't find it anywhere in
> > kernel
> 
> Yeah, that's 2.4 stuff, you don't need that anymore, everything shows up
> in sysfs now.

Here's a fix. Where in sysfs should I find that?

root@amd:/sys# find . -name "*hot*"
./module/"pci_hotplug"

> > CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_PCIE exists in Makefile but not in Kconfig.
> 
> Did you look in drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig?

No, oops, you are right.

--- snip here ---

Remove reference to pcihpfs that no longer exists.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>

--- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/Kconfig
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ config HOTPLUG_PCI
 	---help---
 	  Say Y here if you have a motherboard with a PCI Hotplug controller.
 	  This allows you to add and remove PCI cards while the machine is
-	  powered up and running.  The file system pcihpfs must be mounted
-	  in order to interact with any PCI Hotplug controllers.
+	  powered up and running.
 
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
 	  module will be called pci_hotplug.



-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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