From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264624AbTIIV3x (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:29:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264492AbTIIV3v (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:29:51 -0400 Received: from modemcable137.219-201-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca ([24.201.219.137]:54912 "EHLO montezuma.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264409AbTIIV3g (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:29:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:28:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: Alan Cox cc: Russell King , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Buggy PCI drivers - do not mark pci_device_id as discardable data In-Reply-To: <1063142578.30981.22.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20030909204803.N4216@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20030909220452.S4216@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1063142578.30981.22.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2003-09-09 at 22:04, Russell King wrote: > > I want this to be foolproof, because its me people bug when their cardbus > > cards oops when they insert the damned things. If people are happy to > > ignore this issue, I'm happy to ignore the bug reports. > > > > It basically isn't something I want to deal with, and we need to find a > > way to stop these stupidities appearing in the first place. > > > > Any ideas? > > You've already got symbols for initdata start and end, just check the > pointers in the pci_register code. I guess you want a per platform > > BUG_IF_INIT(x) I hacked up something similar, but i'm not sure what to do about modules.