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Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 21:01:58 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Tom Gall <gall@rochcivictheatre.org>
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Subject: Re: request region in the wrong spot?
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Tom Gall wrote:
>   I propose moving this 6 request region calls to
>
>   arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c in ppc_init()
>
>   which is called by init/main do_basic_setup() fairly early.
>
>   Is this a reasonable fix?

Generally pre-kmalloc request_region calls should occur in the form of
static struct resource variables being passed to __request_region.

	Jeff




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