Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Mar 2016 14:23:48 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2-UPDATE2 3/4] resource: Add device-managed insert/remove_resource() | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote: > > Here's the usage patch from Toshi [1] (copied below). It is indeed a > resource injected by nfit / nvdimm bus implementation. We just happen > to support nfit and libnvdimm as modules. > > The goal of these patches is to use the ACPI NFIT data to create a > "Persistent Memory" rather than "reserved" resource. This is for > platform-firmware implementations that use E820-Type2 rather than > E820-Type7 to describe pmem.
So my worry is that there is likely exactly one or two of these kinds of sites.
Why couldn't they just use insert_resource() and then remove it manually?
Linus
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