* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> this code is plain buggy but fixing it triggered driver bugs in the
> >> past so we've been procrastinating it forever ...
> >>
> >
> > What kind of driver bugs? Do drivers manage to get into the other
> > branch
>
> That was just the return value issue that caused drivers to fail
> through ioremap() iirc. It would error out for unmapped holes and then
> fail ioremap I don't think it's related.
in -mm we had a patch where the error behavior was consolidated but it
broke on some boxes.
Ingo
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