[RFC][PATCH v3 1/3] runtime interpreted power sequences

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 04:22:17PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 03:13:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > __devinit can be discarded if you disable enough kernel features,
> > HOTPLUG is the main one IIRC, modules might also need to go - drivers
> > really ought to take a copy of platform data they plan to use at
> > runtime, though practically speaking you have to try to trigger any
> > problems.

> HOTPLUG is marked EXPERT and explicitly states that it should only be
> disabled if you're not using modules or dynamic device discovery. I
> think if you've ignored all of that you're no longer entitled to
> complain.

This is framework code - it doesn't have much option.  Disabling HOTPLUG
is totally reasonable on space constrained systems, there's no reason
for the code to break things for people.