Re: [RFC PATCH v5 4/8] ACPI, PCI: avoid building pci_slot as module

[Yinghai Lu]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Saturday, January 19, 2013 12:07:42 AM Jiang Liu wrote:
>>> As discussed in thread at https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1946851/,
>>> there's no value in supporting CONFIG_ACPI_PCI_SLOT=m any more.
>>> So change Kconfig and code to only support building pci_slot as
>>> built-in driver.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I think we should eventually get rid of acpi_pci_register_driver() and
> do this initialization directly from acpi_pci_root_add().  But
> removing the module option here is a good first step.
>
> Rafael, do you want to apply this (and [6/8]) via your tree?  If not,
> I can take it.

If bios have messed up slot name or idx, we will get strange 1-1....
other crazy name.

if you really need to put it as built-in, may need to some command
line that user could switch it off.

Yinghai
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