Re: [PATCH -v3 1/4] pci, usb: Make usb handoff func all take baseremapping

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 05:56:55AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 01:21:58AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 22:34 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > >>
> > >> system_state does not work.
> > >> it only have BOOTING and RUNNING ...
> > >> RUNNING is set in init/main.c::init_post().
> > >> so early_quirk and pci_quirk all with BOOTING stage...
> > >
> > > Or we can make msleep() itself safe...
> > 
> > still think the function pointer is more clean and safe.

You could use the pvops interface. Similar to how it patches
the SMP locking code if it finds to be running under UP.

But that might be way to complex for this issue.
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