[Debian-eeepc-devel] Why do we use pciehp?

[Phil Endecott]

Phil Endecott wrote:
> - There's now a patch that eliminates the 1-second delay when pciehp 
> turns on a slot.
> - The 1-second delay when pciehp turns off a slot is unavoidable, 
> though AFAICT it doesn't break on the Eee 901 if you reduce it to 100ms.

It turns out that it is in fact avoidable in our case, and there's now 
a patch to fix it:

     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.pci/1573


Phil.