From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: okaya@codeaurora.org (okaya at codeaurora.org) Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 01:22:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] PCI: Add pci=safemode option In-Reply-To: <577f01ada5e7f08c79a28d41020fb019@codeaurora.org> References: <1527650389-31575-1-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> <20180530043103.GA19734@kroah.com> <6c317ed8-cca3-8862-5f3b-12cf14e4d53b@codeaurora.org> <20180530073735.GA28793@infradead.org> <6dfe2db8f974d94c9867f30ec83d9333@codeaurora.org> <20180530074822.GB30177@kroah.com> <577f01ada5e7f08c79a28d41020fb019@codeaurora.org> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 2018-05-30 00:56, okaya at codeaurora.org wrote: > On 2018-05-30 00:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:44:29AM -0700, okaya at codeaurora.org wrote: >>> On 2018-05-30 00:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 09:41:33PM -0700, Sinan Kaya wrote: >>> > > Bjorn and I discussed the need for such a "safe" mode feature when you >>> > > want to bring up PCI for a platform. You want to turn off everything >>> > > as >>> > > a starter and just stick to bare minimum. >>> > >>> > Can we please make it a config option the instead of adding code >>> > to every kernel? Also maybe the bringup should be in the name >>> > to make this more clear? >>> >>> One other requirement was to have a runtime option rather than >>> compile time >>> option. >>> >>> When someone reported a problem, we wanted to be able to say "use >>> this >>> option and see if system boots" without doing any bisects or >>> recompilation. >>> >>> This would be the first step in troubleshooting a system to see if >>> fundamental features are working. >> >> That makes sense, people can not rebuild their kernels for the most >> part. Putting it behind a config option would not make sense as it >> would always have to be enabled. >> > > Here is where the discussion took place. Last 5-10 messages should > help. > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196197 > Some more paper trail for general awareness. https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/3/509 > >>> I don't mind changing the name Bjorn mentioned safe option. I made it >>> safemode. I am looking at Bjorn for suggestions at this moment. >> >> "minimal"? "basic"? "crippled"? >> "my_hardware_is_so_borked_it_needs_this_option"? :) >> >> Naming is hard... >> >> greg k-h