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From: Tim Cooijmans <tim@aapopfiets.nl>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH] check request_region return value
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:52:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602262052.27818.tim@aapopfiets.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602242249.22568.tim@aapopfiets.nl>

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On Sunday 26 February 2006 05:50, Darren Jenkins\ wrote:
> This might sound a bit stupid, but why are you doing release_region
> here ? As you can't warn the upstream code, it will presumably try to
> use the regions anyway. Wouldn't it be better to just to warn on a
> failure, and keep going as normal? leaving all the regions (that were
> acquired) mapped, keeping breakage/(usage of unmapped regions) to a
> minimum?
Good point.  I'll revise my patch and resubmit.

Tim

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-26 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-24 21:49 [KJ] [PATCH] check request_region return value Tim Cooijmans
2006-02-24 21:58 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-24 23:07 ` Tim Cooijmans
2006-02-24 23:11 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-25 13:58 ` Tim Cooijmans
2006-02-25 14:13 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-25 17:26 ` Tim Cooijmans
2006-02-25 17:34 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-25 20:42 ` Tim Cooijmans
2006-02-25 21:03 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-26  4:50 ` Darren Jenkins\
2006-02-26 19:52 ` Tim Cooijmans [this message]

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