linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3 v9] x86/mm: Change the examination condition to avoid confusion

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Message-ID: <20190325064046.GB12016@zn.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 25 Mar 2019 07:40:46 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     lijiang <lijiang@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, luto@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, dyoung@...hat.com, bhe@...hat.com,
        Thomas.Lendacky@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v9] x86/mm: Change the examination condition to avoid
 confusion

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:11:45AM +0800, lijiang wrote:
> I mean it needs to find all the value of the 'IORES_DESC_ACPI_*' type.

A function called __ioremap_check_desc_other() needs to find
IORES_DESC_ACPI_* types...

No, still don't know what you're trying to do.

> As above mentioned, it needs to find all the value of the 'IORES_DESC_ACPI_*'
> type, so we should explicitly use the 'IORES_DESC_ACPI_*' type as the check
> condition instead of the 'IORES_DESC_NONE'.

And now the same question I'm asking you each time: WHY does it need to find
the ACPI types?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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