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SubjectRe: Being more anal about iospace accesses..
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:30:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So right now the current snapshots (and 2.6.9-rc2) have this enabled, and
> some drivers will be _very_ noisy when compiled. Most of the regular ones
> are fine, so maybe people haven't even noticed it that much, but some of
> them were using things like "u32" to store MMIO pointers, and are
> generally extremely broken on anything but an x86. We'll hopefully get
> around to fixing them up eventually, but in the meantime this should at
> least explain the background for some of the new noise people may see.

For the curious, 6MB of sparse output is generated from a make allmodconfig
right now. (http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/2.6.9-rc2-warnings.txt)

You can filter out just the __iomem warnings by grepping for asn:2

Dave

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