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

[Yinghai Lu]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
>> 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.
>
> It would save us all a lot of time if you gave an example and worked
> through the scenario where this is a problem.
>
> We already have the choice of having pci_slot built-in, so if there's
> a bug in that config, we already have the bug.  This patch merely
> removes a config where the bug might be covered up.


for distribution, current it is with module, so user could blacklist
in module.conf

Now with built-in or not, distribution will have it built-in, and user
have no chance to
disable it.

> I don't know why "adding a command line switch" appeals to you as the
> solution to every problem.  As far as I'm concerned that's not a
> solution to ANY problem.  It might be a band-aid to enable users to
> limp along while we figure out a correct solution, but it's certainly
> not a resolution.

Looks like you want to remove command line support, right ?

Yinghai
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