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SubjectRe: Big Fix for 2.2.1

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Linux Lists wrote:
> >
> > Please don't do that. The Cyclades driver supports both ISA and PCI cards,
> > and it follows correctly the current definition, by ioremap'ing addresses
> > above 1MB and using readX/writeX for _all_ accesses to MMIO resources (in
> > ISA or PCI). Doing this change would mean having to test which card I'm
> > accessing _every time_ I do a readX/writeX, which is completelly
> > unacceptable (for obvious performance reasons).
>
> Note that for drivers that already are PCI-aware, the trivial fix is to
> just make them _always_ ioremap() their area (whether it is in the ISA
> legacy region or not) and then use readX/writeX. That works now, and will
> always work - that's how ioremap() is supposed to handle it.
>
> It's only for drivers that _only_ know about legacy ISA issues that this
> would be an issue.

Ok, my bad. I somehow thought that you mentioned a change in the ioremap
kernel function, which you didn't. Please disregard my msg while I wear my
fireproof asbestos cloth (for the flames ... :).

Regards,
Ivan



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