Re: [PATCH] scripts/modpost: check for bad refernces in .pci.fixups area

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>]

On 05/03/2012 08:12 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Most of the things this finds are quirks for devices one could argue
> are not hot-pluggable, like northbridges, I/O APICs, etc.  But some of
> those are becoming hot-pluggable, and I think it's too easy to make
> the wrong __init/__devinit decision, so I think the safest thing is to
> make them all __devinit.

I got here via a PCIe-bridge quirk. The bridge itself is not removed
but the quirk is executed after "echo 1 > remove" followed by rescan.

> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas<bhelgaas@google.com>
>
> I assume this will be merged via a kbuild tree; let me know if otherwise.

I tried to figured who is in charge here. I guess either Marek or
Alessio Bogani will take it. Atleast I have the PCI-ack here :)

> Will you post a follow-up patch to fix the PCI quirk annotations?

Since you are fine with it, let me try to prepare some.

Sebastian