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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/13] devres: implement managed iomap interface
Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> but there is no reason not to make it work properly. For example I
>>> believe libata uses devm_* and the fsl SATA driver (non-PCI) will
>>> need to work in cases similar to the 44x.
>>
>> Well, as for sata_fsl, it calls of_iomap() which does The Right Thing.
>
> Fair, but I don't see why we should introduce new APIs that are already
> "broken". We went through a lot of effort to clean up and introduce
> resource_t (and clearly still have some bugs) for the >32-bit physical
> address problem.

Yes, please go ahead. In case it wasn't clear, I wasn't objecting to
the fix at all. I was just curious what could actually happen on x86.

--
tejun


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