Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2008 02:20:42 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] x86: unify asm/pgtable.h |
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* Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> >> this code is plain buggy but fixing it triggered driver bugs in the > >> past so we've been procrastinating it forever ... > >> > > > > What kind of driver bugs? Do drivers manage to get into the other > > branch > > That was just the return value issue that caused drivers to fail > through ioremap() iirc. It would error out for unmapped holes and then > fail ioremap I don't think it's related.
in -mm we had a patch where the error behavior was consolidated but it broke on some boxes.
Ingo
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