Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:04:02 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4, v3] Physical PCI slot objects |
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:32:25PM -0800, Gary Hade wrote:
> 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.
If we're compiling something into the kernel, the default behaviour should be for the functionality to be turned on unless the user overrides it.
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