Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:33:06 +0900 | From | Kenji Kaneshige <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4, v3] Physical PCI slot objects |
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Gary Hade ????????: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 11:29:54AM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> This is v3 of the pci_slot patch series. >> >> The major change is making the ACPI-PCI slot driver a Kconfig >> option, as per the recommendations of others (Gary, Kenji-san). > > Alex, What I was trying to suggest is a boot-time kernel option, > not a kernel configuration option. The basic idea is to give > the user (with a single binary kernel) the ability to include > your ACPI-PCI slot driver feature changes only when they are > really needed. In addition to reducing the number of > system/PCI hotplug driver combinations where your changes > would need to be validated, I believe would also help > alleviate other worries (e.g. Andi Kleen's memory consumption > concern). I believe this goal could also be achieved with the > kernel config option by making the pci_slot module runtime > loadable with the PCI hotplug drivers only visiting your new > code when the pci_slot driver is loaded, although I think this > would be more difficult to implement. >
I agree to Gary very much.
Thanks, Kenji Kaneshige
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