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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Martin Filip <bugtraq@smoula.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Macbook Pro 5,5 nvidia backlight fix
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 18:25:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100705172552.GA16298@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C31F9C4.8090609@smoula.net>

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 05:27:00PM +0200, Martin Filip wrote:
> Maybe someone involved with this module can merge this one?

This is a really bad idea. You're hardcoding the location of PDISPLAY, 
which the kernel is at liberty to remap at boot time, and even then 
you're writing into the address space of a device that's controlled by 
another driver. Does nouveau not handle this hardware properly?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-05 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-05 15:27 Macbook Pro 5,5 nvidia backlight fix Martin Filip
2010-07-05 17:25 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
     [not found]   ` <4C321A0D.20008@smoula.net>
2010-07-05 17:48     ` Matthew Garrett

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