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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Commit "[PATCH] USB: Always do usb-handoff" breaks my powerbook
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:28:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130837294.9145.80.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1130815836.29054.420.camel@gaston>

On Maw, 2005-11-01 at 14:30 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Damn, those quirks should really be either more careful or be made
> platform specific if they are x86 junk workarounds.

USB handoff is fairly x86 specific. The x86 folks took great care to
handle back compatibility while Apple was content to just dump the users
and machines.

> > > It is illegal, whatever the platform is, to tap a PCI device MMIO like

Not "illegal" -> "invalid".

Please get that right as we have far too many incorrect uses of
"illegal" in publically visible printk calls. Illegal means "prohibited
by law".



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-01  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-31  5:23 Commit "[PATCH] USB: Always do usb-handoff" breaks my powerbook Paul Mackerras
2005-11-01  0:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-01  1:41   ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2005-11-01  2:41     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-01  3:09       ` David Brownell
2005-11-01  3:30         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-01  4:17           ` David Brownell
2005-11-01  4:52             ` Paul Mackerras
2005-11-01  5:08               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-01  9:28           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-11-01 13:40             ` Glenn Maynard
2005-11-01 21:09             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-01  3:39         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-11-01  4:06         ` Kyle Moffett
2005-11-01  4:39           ` David Brownell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-02  4:21 Aleksey Gorelov

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