On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >> Hmm, your patch looks OK as far as it goes, but the implementation of >> pci_fixup_irqs() as a call-once-at-boot-time thing with a loop through >> all the PCI devices we've found so far looks completely broken with >> regard to hotplug. >> >> Who does the swizzle for devices hot-added after boot? > > Perhaps I should have mentioned this in the commit message, but the patch > isn't actually used in a hotplug scenario. In fact, the code is still run > once at boot time, only very late. Grant's deferred probing allows the > PCIe controller driver to postpone initialization until all the devices > that it depends on (regulators) have been probed. This has the side-effect > that the probing actually takes place *after* code and data annotated with > __init have already been freed. Oh, I know *you're* not using the hotplug scenario. I'm just thinking that the PCi core looks a little broken in that scenario. I think your patch is fine; it's just that I think the PCI core needs a little more attention in this area. Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
