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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 14/16] x86,nvdimm,kexec: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for iomem search
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...

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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