Re: Linux 2.5.8-pre2

Russell King
2002-04-07T10:27:25Z

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:17:28PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Please either add resource management code to anakinfb and clps711xfb,
> or apply the patch below.

They're not ISA nor PCI - in fact, they're specific system-on-a-chip
framebuffers. I therefore don't see the point of your patch.

(Oh, and a bugbear - people go running around adding checks for the
return value of request_region and friends on embedded devices where
there can't be the possibility of a clash waste memory needlessly.)

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux