[PATCH] ARM: allow, but warn, when issuing ioremap() on RAM

[greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 12:04:51AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:37:10PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > People have been discussing them, but you can't expect a perfect
> > solution to pop up within one release cycle, specially when people
> > have real issues to deal with.
> 
> Two release cycles.  It was queued for the previous release, was posted
> to the mailing list, was de-queued, and then re-added for the last merge
> window.
> 
> That's not no warning - that's almost six months.
> 
> http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20100408.094818.d6854bd5.en.html
> 
> So what you're telling me is that in six months, not one driver has been
> touched to address this issue?  So, if no one in that time has done any
> work on this, then what use is it going to be making the kernel issue
> a warning instead?
> 
> So, since this has been known about for six months to the day, I completely
> fail to see how making this a warning instead will create the necessary
> motivation for the issue to be addressed.

I doubt that people even noticed that this was a problem.

Unless you throw a run-time warning at them, or even better, break the
build of their drivers, they will not notice.

Also, how can we fix this in a driver, what is the proper steps to do
so?

thanks,

greg k-h