On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:13:39AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:41:37AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
I see fixups in controller drivers here:
drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-keystone.c drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-qcom.c drivers/pci/controller/pci-loongson.c drivers/pci/controller/pci-tegra.c drivers/pci/controller/pcie-iproc-bcma.c drivers/pci/controller/pcie-iproc.c
Are any of those somehow wrong?
When did we allow modular controller drivers anyway? That feels like a somewhat bad idea, too.
Why not? We currently only restrict the controller drivers implementing the irqchip controller from being *removed* because of the IRQ disposal concern. Other than that, I don't see why kernel should restrict building them as modules.
- Mani