linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Restricted Access Region Register driver for Intel MID devices

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Message-ID: <20090709232039.GE1469@ucw.cz>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:20:39 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Mark Allyn <mark.a.allyn@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, alan@...ux.intel.com,
	charles.f.johnson@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restricted Access Region Register driver for Intel MID
	devices

On Wed 2009-07-08 13:00:12, Mark Allyn wrote:
> This is the device driver for the Restricted Access Region registers on the
> Intel MID device.
> 
> Restricted Access Regions are areas of memory that are not accessable to the
> i86 processor.
> 
> This driver is used by other device drivers to obtain the start and end 
> addresses of the Restricted Access Regions.
> 
> This driver is not used by any user space applications.
> 
> This patch is applied against 2.6.31
> 
> Signed off my Mark Allyn <mark.a.allyn@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/Kconfig                     |    2 +
>  drivers/Makefile                    |    1 +
>  drivers/rar_register/Kconfig        |   17 +

rar_register is really bad name. It is simultaneously too long and too
abberviated.

> +menu "RAR Register Driver"
> +#
> +# The new 8250/16550 serial drivers
> +config RAR_REGISTER
> +	tristate "Restricted Access Region Register Driver"
> +	depends on MRST

Serial driver?

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