On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 07:13:01AM +1000, Andrew Worsley wrote:
> Hi I have been using the 3.0.42 stable kernel and hit problems getting
> PCI hotplug to work.
> I fixed my issues by back porting (with very little effort - a
> variable name change conflict) the following fixes from the mainline.
> 
> I suggest you may want to consider them as valuable candidate fixes
> for your 3.0.y stable branch:
> 
> Cc: <[email protected]> # 3.3-rc1:
> a4ac9fea016fc5c09227eb479bd35e34978323a4 PCI : Calculate right
> add_size
> Cc: <[email protected]> # 3.1-rc1:
> 2bbc6942273b5b3097bd265d82227bdd84b351b2 PCI : ability to relocate
> assigned pci-resources
> Cc: <[email protected]> # 3.1-rc1:
> be768912a49b10b68e96fbd8fa3cab0adfbd3091 PCI: honor child buses
> add_size in hot plug configuration

These don't seem to apply to the 3.0 tree, are you sure you didn't also
backport other fixes?

> 
> There was one additional change I made (not present) in the trunk
> which allowed me to configure the
> alignment of the hot-plugged bus via the kernel command line parameter
> resource_alignment that I found
> very useful.

Having this upstream would be good as it's necessary for it to be
accepted into a stable kernel release.

thanks,

greg k-h
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