Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:51:41 -0500 | From | Paul Gortmaker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] drivers/pci: make most of the PCI_DW drivers modular |
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[Re: [PATCH 5/5] drivers/pci: make most of the PCI_DW drivers modular] On 08/02/2016 (Mon 11:00) Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 07 February 2016 19:00:44 Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > We've exported the symbols that we know these specific drivers > > will need as tristate, so now we can make the conversion from > > bool to tristate w/o concern for build regressions. > > > > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> > > Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com> > > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> > > Cc: Stanimir Varbanov <svarbanov@mm-sol.com> > > Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > > Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org > > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> > > Looks good, but I'm not sure what happens on unload. Did you check?
Per the 0/N I've not got the capability to do run time testing for any of this stuff. And from previous discussions, ISTR that people didn't want to see a blanket block-unload policy implemented.
> Until this is tested, maybe it's best to prevent module unloading?
If that is what people want, I can add that.
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> > Arnd
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