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Message-ID: <20100705172552.GA16298@srcf.ucam.org> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 18:25:52 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> To: Martin Filip <bugtraq@...ula.net> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Macbook Pro 5,5 nvidia backlight fix On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 05:27:00PM +0200, Martin Filip wrote: > Maybe someone involved with this module can merge this one? This is a really bad idea. You're hardcoding the location of PDISPLAY, which the kernel is at liberty to remap at boot time, and even then you're writing into the address space of a device that's controlled by another driver. Does nouveau not handle this hardware properly? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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