Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Oct 2010 20:22:45 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: allow, but warn, when issuing ioremap() on RAM |
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On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 12:44:22PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Many drivers are broken, and there's no alternative in sight. Such a big > change should stay as a warning for now, and only later should it > actually fail. > > The drivers are not doing something correct, we get it, but for now it's > better to allow them to work (they do 99% of the time anyway) rather > than to force everyone to revert this patch in their internal trees > until there's a solution. A slightly broken functionality is better than > no functionality at all. > > A warning lets people know that what they are doing is not right, and > they should fix it.
So what are _you_ going to do to fix these drivers? Continue reverting this patch? Or are you just going to ignore the issue entirely?
Unless people can come up with a plan to fix their drivers using ioremap on system RAM thereby violating the architecture specification, I'm _not_ going to apply this patch.
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