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Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:35:31 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kmemleak reports firmware loader funnies in iwlwifi

Hi Catalin,

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Catalin Marinas<catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
> I tried to do this but it has some other implications. If I add the vmap
> hook, I would need to add vunmap as well. On ARM, at least, iounmap
> calls vunmap (but not vmap) which means that I would need to add ioremap
> support as well. That's not a bug issue but this is more like a new
> feature than a bug fix.
>
> I propose that for now I disable the kmemleak warning for unknown
> pointers and add a patch to linux-next which tracks ioremap and vmap
> mappings. Does this sound fine?

Yup, makes sense.
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