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Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:16:24 -0500
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	Ley Foon Tan <lftan@...era.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
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	Linux-sh list <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] drivers/pci: avoid module_init in non-modular
 host/pci*

[Re: [PATCH 00/10] drivers/pci: avoid module_init in non-modular host/pci*] On 14/12/2015 (Mon 11:27) Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Monday 14 December 2015 10:19:40 Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > PCIe host driver that use fixup (DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_*) can't use tristate.
> > > Fixup region is in kernel region and this region if not updated when
> > > loading a module.
> > 
> > Interesting, I hadn't thought about that. I suppose this means that the
> > module will end up containing an unused section with the fixup code. It
> > might be useful to add a way for that to trigger a warning at build
> > time.
> > 
> > Perhaps to fix this a mechanism could be introduced to add a table of
> > fixups to a host controller driver and that will get applied to all
> > children of the bridge. It could be problematic to cover all of the
> > different fixup stages, though.
> > 
> 
> 
> I think a lot of the fixups shouldn't really be there in the first place,
> they are about stuff that we can fix up in the probe function, or that should
> be fixed up in the probe function with some appropriate core support added.

So, the feedback on this is a bit all over the map, leaving me unsure
what to do next.  And is the choice we make on a per board/bsp basis or
ideally across all platforms?  I see the choices as:

1) do nothing; which IMHO is least desirable as it leaves the code
misrepresenting itself as modular; one of the key issues I wanted to fix

2) use the patches I've sent ; then as they are genuinely made modular,
the person doing so essentially "patch -R" or reverts the change as
step one.  This has the advantage of solving the "we'll get to it
someday" issue if someday never comes.

3) make them all tristate;  beat it with a stick until it compiles [M]
and modposts -- leaving the fixups and functional testing to people with
the boards and low level knowledge to make it _work_ as a module.  The
downside here is the code is still kind of misrepresenting itself as
modularly functional -- a ban of unloading might mitigate that some.

Paul.
--

> 
> 	Arnd
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