Re: 2.6.17-rc1-mm1

[Antonino A. Daplas]

Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 April 2006 15:17, Luck, Tony wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:15:34AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> [PATCH] vgacon: make VGA_MAP_MEM take size, remove extra use
> 
> VGA_MAP_MEM translates to ioremap() on some architectures.  It
> makes sense to do this to vga_vram_base, because we're going to
> access memory between vga_vram_base and vga_vram_end.
> 
> But it doesn't really make sense to map starting at vga_vram_end,
> because we aren't going to access memory starting there.  On ia64,
> which always has to be different, ioremapping vga_vram_end gives
> you something completely incompatible with ioremapped vga_vram_start,
> so vga_vram_size ends up being nonsense.
> 
> As a bonus, we often know the size up front, so we can use ioremap()
> correctly, rather than giving it a zero size.

I definitely prefer this patch.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxx>

Tony
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