Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:16:12 +0200 | From | Shérab <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: EuroBraille/Iris power off |
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Hi,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (2010/09/13 21:45 -0400): > I'm agreeing that if iris_init() checks that the user passed 'irisinit.force=1' > on the command line or as a module parameter, and bailed immediately if it > wasn't passed, then doing the inb() and testing it should be safe enough. Doing > stuff that's only known safe on an Iris is no great sin if the user has said > "Yes, you're on a Iris" - at that point it's the user's fault.
Fine. I'd be happy to submit another patch where the module takes a force argument if that's okay to you guys.
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