[PATCH v8 00/45] powerpc/powernv: PCI hotplug support

Gavin Shan gwshan at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Apr 14 15:25:56 AEST 2016


On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 01:26:51PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:

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>>Do you mean physically pull the adapter out and insert the same
>>adapter back? What's the point for the test case?
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>Because this is what the patchset is for - to replace a physical device on a
>physical machine. Powering on/off the slots via sysfs is just an
>approximation (which is fine when you are debugging), something can go wrong
>and require some work but you do not know it for sure.
>

Yes, It's absolutely worthy to be covered by the test cases though case (2)
covers part of that. Anyway, I'll test it through in next revision. Thanks
for your review.

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>-- 
>Alexey
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