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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v5 4/8] ACPI, PCI: avoid building pci_slot as module
On 2013-1-29 6:58, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> CONFIG_ACPI_PCI_SLOT=y in RHEL6, so evidently they have this problem.
>
> oh, I only checked opensuse that has that set to m.
>
>>
>> Asking users to edit module.conf by hand is not a solution, just like
>> asking users to boot with a command line option is not a solution.
>> That sort of stuff is fine for a hobbyist OS intended only for techie
>> geeks. It's not fine for Linux.
>
> not sure. add something in command line or conf files.
> but recompile kernel is another story.
>
>>
>> If you would give a concrete example of the ACPI namespace info and
>> device config, hotplug sequence, etc., required to show the problem,
>> we could have a useful discussion about ways to fix it. But if all
>> you have is FUD about "this might break and users won't have the
>> ability to edit modules.conf," that doesn't help me see why this patch
>> is a bad idea.
>
> Never mind, We should save your bandwidth to more patches.
Hi Yinghai,
Could we use quirk to auto-disable PCIe native hotplug for
problematic platforms?
Regards!
Gerry

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> Yinghai
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