Re: [PATCH] Restricted Access Region Register driver for Intel MID devices

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:00:12 PDT, Mark Allyn said:
> This is the device driver for the Restricted Access Region registers on the
> Intel MID device.
> 
> Restricted Access Regions are areas of memory that are not accessable to the
> i86 processor.

This text should appear in the Kconfig entry down below.

'i86' - typo, or a new device that just looks like a typo?

> +++ b/drivers/rar_register/Kconfig
> @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
> +#
> +# Serial device configuration
> +#
> +
> +menu "RAR Register Driver"
> +#
> +# The new 8250/16550 serial drivers
> +config RAR_REGISTER
> +	tristate "Restricted Access Region Register Driver"
> +	depends on MRST

Presumably, a yet-to-appear-in-my-inbox (but possibly in-flight) patch
will define this...

> +	default y
> +	---help---
> +		This driver allows other kernel drivers access to the
> +		contents of the restricted access region control 
> +		registers. 

As noted above, this should mention what chipset(s) these control registers
are found on.

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