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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 in arch/ppc and
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:46:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603010646.51479.tim@aapopfiets.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602272229.51950.tim@aapopfiets.nl>

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:48, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> OK, you've followed this route. One question they'll ask me is
>
> 	Can those calls ever fail?
>
> I mean, you're deeply in arch-specific setup code. And request_region()
> parameters are hardwired. And numbers are common among other subarchs in
> this patch.
That's a good question.  Jesper's e-mail explains it well, too.  So, no 
request_region checking in /arch?  Should it only be done in drivers?

Tim
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-27 21:29 [KJ] [PATCH] check request_region() return value in arch/ppc and Tim Cooijmans
2006-02-28  5:33 ` Tim Cooijmans
2006-02-28  5:53 ` Tim Cooijmans
2006-02-28  6:18 ` Tim Cooijmans
2006-02-28 21:48 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-02-28 22:00 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-01  5:46 ` Tim Cooijmans [this message]
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2006-02-27 21:47 Nishanth Aravamudan

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