Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] vgacon: use request_region(), not request_resource(), to set BUSY | | Date | Tue, 4 May 2010 13:16:50 -0600 |
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On Tuesday, May 04, 2010 01:09:46 pm Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 4 May 2010, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > Drivers normally use request_region() to mark the region busy so it won't > > be used by anybody else. Previously, we used request_resource(), which > > doesn't mark the VGA regions busy. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> > > Hmm. I don't object, but unless there is some crazy regression, there's no > way I will take something like this outside the merge window. Who knows > what odd frame buffer driver is out there that just depended on the fact > that it could also register that VGA area? > > Probably no such thing exists, but it's why I want these kinds of things > during the merge window. And obviously preferably through something like > the PCI merge tree, but that's a different issue.
Yep, I was intending for after .34. I couldn't figure out where to send it, but I'll be happy to send it to Jesse.
Bjorn
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