Re: Buggy PCI drivers - do not mark pci_device_id as discardable data

Alan Cox
2003-09-09T21:26:59Z

On Maw, 2003-09-09 at 22:04, Russell King wrote:
> I want this to be foolproof, because its me people bug when their cardbus
> cards oops when they insert the damned things. If people are happy to
> ignore this issue, I'm happy to ignore the bug reports.
>
> It basically isn't something I want to deal with, and we need to find a
> way to stop these stupidities appearing in the first place.
>
> Any ideas?

You've already got symbols for initdata start and end, just check the
pointers in the pci_register code. I guess you want a per platform

BUG_IF_INIT(x)