linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] video: fbdev: atyfb: clarify ioremap() base and length used

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Message-ID: <20150625231103.GB4362@sci.fi>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2015 02:11:03 +0300
From:	Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@....fi>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Ville Syrjälä 
	<ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fbdev <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>,
	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>,
	Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Antonino Daplas <adaplas@...il.com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
	Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>,
	Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] video: fbdev: atyfb: clarify ioremap() base and
 length used

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 04:06:45PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@....fi> wrote:
> > it doesn't hurt too much
> > since smem_len gets overwritten later in aty_init().
> 
> That's the idea, we set it with a default as it will be overwritten
> later anyway.

Maybe toss in a comment? Otherwise it's a bit dishonest and might give
someone the impression that all PCI cards really have 8MB of memory.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
syrjala@....fi
http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/
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