From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from www.linux.org.uk (parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk [195.92.249.252]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E976E4829 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 19:15:34 -0700 (MST) Received: from willy by www.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 3.33 #5) id 18AhdH-0005bl-00; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 02:15:27 +0000 Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 02:15:27 +0000 From: Matthew Wilcox To: "J.E.J. Bottomley" Cc: "Adam J. Richter" , andmike@us.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com, hch@lst.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mochel@osdl.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, willy@debian.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Untested port of parisc_device to generic device interface Message-ID: <20021110021527.Y12011@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <200211100201.gAA21Uv04824@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200211100201.gAA21Uv04824@localhost.localdomain>; from James.Bottomley@steeleye.com on Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:01:29PM -0500 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:01:29PM -0500, J.E.J. Bottomley wrote: > Actually, so would I. I can suspect why there might exist machines like this > (say the consistent attribute is settable at the pgd level) well, there's a limited amount of space available for consistent mappings on some machines. it's basically the same as the vmalloc space. i think the best way to handle this is simply to fail to initialise if you can't get the consistent memory you need. -- Revolutions do not require corporate support.