linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 03/22] axonram: Fix bug in direct

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Message-ID: <20140402192446.GC27299@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Apr 2014 15:24:46 -0400
From:	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 03/22] axonram: Fix bug in direct_access

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 05:22:16PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Sun 23-03-14 15:08:29, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > The 'pfn' returned by axonram was completely bogus, and has been since
> > 2008.
>   Maybe time to drop the driver instead? When noone noticed for 6 years, it
> seems pretty much dead... Or is there some possibility the driver can get
> reused for new HW?

It may be in use, just not with the -o xip option to ext2 ... I can't
find out which of the various vendors on the internet that are called
'Axon' that this device was originally supposed to support.  I suspect
it's dead, since it's DDR-2, but *shrug*, it costs little to fix it.
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