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From: Tim Cooijmans <tim@aapopfiets.nl>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:52:27 +0000
Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH] check request_region return value
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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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