Re: Buggy PCI drivers - do not mark pci_device_id as discardabledata

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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)

I hacked up something similar, but i'm not sure what to do about modules.
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