Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 8 Sep 2008 01:44:18 +0200 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6 of 7] x86: use early_ioremap in __acpi_map_table | |
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 03:21:18PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> __acpi_map_table() effectively reimplements early_ioremap(). Rather
> than have that duplication, just implement it in terms of
> early_ioremap().
>
> However, unlike early_ioremap(), __acpi_map_table() just maintains a
> single mapping which gets replaced each call, and has no corresponding
> unmap function. Implement this by just removing the previous mapping
> each time its called. Unfortunately, this will leave a stray mapping
> at the end.
It would be better to just fix the ACPI code to unmap.
-Andi
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