On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 23:15 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > I understand what you mean, and I agree. Though as far away from the > business end of the drivers I am, I tend to get the feeling that > drivers need the most hand holding.
they do. It's important to make driver APIs as fool proof as possible. > > Anyway, I guess the way to understand the problem is finding the > reason why ioremap checks PageReserved, and whether or not ioremap > should be expected (or allowed) to remap physical RAM in use by > the kernel. I can't think of ANY valid reason for that, in fact, it'll break a lot due to cache aliases etc etc, on various cpus if not even on x86 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
