On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:34:24PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> I notice that drivers/ide/ide-probe.c's hwif_check_region()
> still uses check_region(). If it really does want to use it to probe
> and not reserve, I think we should stop it warning there.
> There's nothing inherently *wrong* with check_region, it's
> just deprecated to trap the old (now racy) idiom of "if
> (check_region(xx)) reserve_region(xx)". There's no reason not to
> introduce a probe_region if IDE really wants it.
> Of course, some people will start "fixing" drivers by
> s/check_region/probe_region/ when we do this, but that's the risk we
> take.
> It should also allow us to easily get rid of that stupid warning in
> ksyms.c...
I've actually seen IDE oops doing a racy check_region()/request_region()
on 2.4.x-test*. Either the fix I brewed up never hit mainline or there's
more than the one I hit.
-- wli
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