Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.

[Alan Cox]

> > At least one way to handle BUG_ON() type situations more cleanly (for
> > some anyway) is to fake a hot-unplug/plug event. Thats something that
> 
> That would have a high risk of deadlock on some lost lock.

Well I was assuming you'd code this up in the driver not arbitarily - and
you need to do that for IRQ anyway. So something like


	writel(0xFFFFFFFF, &mdev->irq_mask);
	pci_mark_failed(pdev, PCI_TRY_REPLUG|PCI_TRY_D3);
	spin_unlock(&mylock);
	return -EXPLODED;

with pci_mark_failed firing off any replug via a work queue

Alan
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