linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: allow, but warn, when issuing ioremap() on RAM

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Date:	Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:17:59 +0300
From:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Arnd Hannemann <arnd@...dnet.de>,
	Hemant Pedanekar <hemantp@...com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-main <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Uwe Kleine-K?nig" <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Han Jonghun <jonghun79.han@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: allow, but warn, when issuing ioremap() on RAM

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 09:43:50PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> I'm guessing some closed source graphics drivers for ARM do all kinds
>> of wrong crap, and Nokia use them a lot, and nobody wants to tell the
>> closed vendors to change their drivers because it costs money.
>
> In which case Russell's message to tell them to sodd off is exactly the
> right thing to do.  I've never figured out why Felipe cars so much, but
> if he's one of the users of utterly buggy binary drivers that would
> explain his weird actions here.

If you mean PVR SGX, no, I don't use it myself, and it's not a binary
driver, the code is open:
http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-os-base/kernel-source/trees/master/patches

The one I use is tidspbridge which is in staging.

But that's not relevant, what is relevant is that is that the API was
broken without a warning grace period in final releases. "Good"
drivers are broken, I suspect many that haven't made into mainline yet
will receive a bad surprise. Making this only a warning on .36 doesn't
hurt anybody, does it?

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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