Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:08:35 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/13] devres: implement managed iomap interface |
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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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