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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers/char/serial.c unchecked ioremap() calls
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:15:29AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >
> > Em Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:53:59AM +0300, Andrey Panin escreveu:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > 16x50 serial driver doesn't check ioremap() return value.
> > > Atached patch should fix this it.
> >
> > humm, have not checked, but it seems as if you don't release the previous
> > successful mappings on failure. Wipe out this message if I was too quick to
> > answer and this is not true. 8)
>
> Also, the proper return from a failed ioremap is -ENOMEM, so I think
> Andrey's serial.c patch should modify some functions to return a failure
> code...
>

All these ioremap() failures are not fatal,
just fail to init one PCI/ISAPNP device or one serial port.
IMHO a warning message will be enough for them :)

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