linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/14] ARM: pci: Keep pci_common

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Date:	Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:54:22 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/14] ARM: pci: Keep pci_common_init() around after init

On Wednesday 06 February 2013 17:38:20 Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Thierry Reding
> <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de> wrote:
> 
> > When using deferred driver probing, PCI host controller drivers may
> > actually require this function after the init stage.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
> 
> There seem to be a proliferation of these patches now.
> 
> Isn't this just papering over the real problem? The discarding
> of __init sections need to happen *after* all deferred probes
> are complete, lest we have to remove *all* __init sections from
> *all* drivers in the kernel, don't we?

No, I think it's not quite that bad. I think the rule is still
just that .probe() functions and anything called from them must
not be __init. They used to be __devinit, which would cause
problems with deferred probing on !HOTPLUG systems but that's
gone in 3.9.

Thierry's patch is just necessary because pci_common_init used
to be called only from actual __init functions, and not it
gets called from a .probe() function for the first time.

	Arnd
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