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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	jdike@karaya.com, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: uninline check_signature()
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:38:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070717203853.GO21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707172225260.23024@anakin>

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:31:08PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> And we'll all live with a check_signature() in our kernel, which is used
> only by a few legacy drivers that depend on ISA || PCI...
> 
> OR I'll have to disable HAS_IOMEM on m68k, and invent a new Kconfig
> symbol for lots of other stuff that currently depends on HAS_IOMEM...

Actually...  Is there any reason why it's not simply
	kmalloc
	memcpy_fromio
	memcmp
on all targets?  Or just a variably-sized auto array, since we never
do it for large stuff, IIRC...

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-17 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200707161802.l6GI2tNp007390@hera.kernel.org>
2007-07-16 22:12 ` uninline check_signature() Heiko Carstens
2007-07-16 22:29   ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-16 22:35     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-16 23:03       ` Heiko Carstens
2007-07-17 13:22         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-17 16:33           ` Jeff Dike
2007-07-17 16:46             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-17 18:03               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-17 20:31                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-17 20:38                   ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-07-17 20:40                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18  6:45                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-08-12 10:24                     ` [PATCH] Introduce CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE (was: Re: uninline check_signature()) Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-17  8:50       ` uninline check_signature() Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-17  8:53         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-18 11:33         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-07-17  8:59   ` Pekka Enberg

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