From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, bzolnier@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: Stop mapping ROMs
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:59:21 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <467BD5B9.3080307@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070622142252.2ec0d148@the-village.bc.nu>
Hello.
Alan Cox wrote:
> Various old IDE drivers go mapping ROM devices for no apparent reason and
> without using the ROM mapping API we now have. They don't actually use
Hm, do you mean the sysfs based aproach? I've tried that and somehow it
failed to work for me -- that's because I deferred removing this stuff from
the drivers.
> the ROM they map and the new libata drivers are happy without it being
I guess ROMs used to be mappen just for dumping BIOSes...
> mapped so rather than port them lets just junk it for the next -rc1.
I'd agree to the patch -- the drivers were mapping ROMs in a bad way,
often using the default addresses.
MBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-22 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-22 13:22 [PATCH] ide: Stop mapping ROMs Alan Cox
2007-06-22 13:59 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2007-06-23 17:42 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-06-23 18:54 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-23 17:42 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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