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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] e1000e: Useset_memory_ro()/set_memory_rw() to protect flash memory
David Miller wrote:
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:45:53 +0200 (CEST)
>
>> Yes, probably not a vanilla kernel material, but could be very well used
>> for testing to further isolate whether it is kernel or userspace
>> corrupting the memory mapped eeprom.
>
> Absolutely.

Would it help and would it be feasible to drastically shorten the
lifetime of the MMIO mapping? I.e. only have it mapped briefly during
the driver probe, and temporarily whenever a userspace tool like ethtool
needs it.
--
Stefan Richter
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