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From: Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: struct page to 36 (or 64) bit bus address?
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:13:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B755995.E876230C@storm.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010809151022.C1575@sventech.com> <E15UvLO-0007tH-00@the-village.bc.nu> <15218.61869.424038.30544@pizda.ninka.net> <20010809163531.D1575@sventech.com> <20010811175626.O19169@athlon.random>

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> ... (the API says that if you get null out of the map call you
> should fallback, but no driver checks for this null retval and so in
> turn they're all prone to crash, not going to be fixed in 2.4 I guess).

That strikes me as a pretty basic programming error. Why on Earth is
it not considered a problem urgently needing a fix?

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-11 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-09 18:40 struct page to 36 (or 64) bit bus address? Johannes Erdfelt
2001-08-09 19:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-09 19:10   ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-08-09 19:19     ` Alan Cox
2001-08-09 20:25       ` David S. Miller
2001-08-09 20:35         ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-08-10  7:00           ` Gerd Knorr
2001-08-10  7:56             ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-08-10 21:58             ` David S. Miller
2001-08-11  7:09               ` Gerd Knorr
2001-08-12 10:49                 ` Write Combining (Write Coalescing) on memory mapped I/O on IA64 Steffen Persvold
2001-08-11 15:32               ` struct page to 36 (or 64) bit bus address? Jens Axboe
2001-08-11 15:56           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-11 16:13             ` Sandy Harris [this message]
2001-08-12  8:00               ` David S. Miller
     [not found] <no.id>
2001-08-12 11:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-13 13:51   ` David S. Miller
2001-08-13 14:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-13 14:21   ` David S. Miller
2001-08-13 19:07     ` Gérard Roudier
2001-08-13 19:42       ` David S. Miller
2001-08-13 15:10 ` Alan Cox

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