From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ie0-f176.google.com ([209.85.223.176]:53463 "EHLO mail-ie0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754132Ab3BFQiU (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2013 11:38:20 -0500 Received: by mail-ie0-f176.google.com with SMTP id k13so2133735iea.7 for ; Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:38:20 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1357764194-12677-7-git-send-email-thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> References: <1357764194-12677-1-git-send-email-thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> <1357764194-12677-7-git-send-email-thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:38:20 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/14] ARM: pci: Keep pci_common_init() around after init From: Linus Walleij To: Thierry Reding , Grant Likely , Greg KH Cc: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, Jason Gunthorpe , Russell King , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring , Bjorn Helgaas , Andrew Murray , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-pci-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Thierry Reding wrote: > When using deferred driver probing, PCI host controller drivers may > actually require this function after the init stage. > > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding 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? Yours, Linus Walleij