Re: [PATCH] remove check_region in drivers-char-specialix.c

[Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:05:10AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:41:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg399680.html
> 
> Ewww...  A lot of chunks consisting only of whitespace removals - great
> way to make patch less readable...
> 
> And yes, that second call of sx_request_io_range() must die.  BTW,
> what's wrong with use of mdelay() instead of that sx_long_delay()
> junk?  Replacing both calls of sx_long_delay() with mdelay(50) would do it...

Trust me: mdelay didn't exist when I wrote that.

The code calls the private function that does what I think should've
been kernel infrastructure all along to make it easy to either: 
change the body of the function to call the new infrastructure, or 
replace the call of the private function with the call to the new
infrastructure. 

	Roger. 

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