Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:38:04 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86,nvdimm,kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for iomem search |
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On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 03:09:23PM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote: > Change to call walk_iomem_res_desc() for searching resource entries > with the following names: > "ACPI Tables" > "ACPI Non-volatile Storage" > "Persistent Memory (legacy)" > "Crash kernel" > > Note, the caller of walk_iomem_res() with "GART" is left unchanged > because this entry may be initialized by out-of-tree drivers, which > do not have 'desc' set to IORES_DESC_GART.
There's this out-of-tree bogus argument again. :\
Why do we care about out-of-tree drivers?
You can just as well fix the "GART" case too and kill walk_iomem_res() altogether...
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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