linux-kernel - Re: Disable PCI while CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20110414093804.0f945ed2@jbarnes-vaio.home>
Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:38:04 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	Xianghua Xiao <xiaoxianghua@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disable PCI while CONFIG_PCI=y

On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:37:24 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:01:38 -0500 Xianghua Xiao wrote:
> 
> > Yes I read that but my ARCH is arm.
> > 
> 
> It would probably make sense to implement
> 	pci=off
> for any $arch.
> 
> Any problem with that, linux-pci??
> 

Yeah I'm ok with it assuming the patch looks good and isn't too
invasive.  I'd think on EP devices you'd want a more pared down kernel
image (so CONFIG_PCI=n among many other things), but if you really want
to share binary images yeah we'll need a runtime check.

Jesse
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