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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jul 10 2009 - 08:06:33 EST


On Wed 2009-07-08 13:00:12, Mark Allyn wrote:
> 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 driver is used by other device drivers to obtain the start and end
> addresses of the Restricted Access Regions.
>
> This driver is not used by any user space applications.
>
> This patch is applied against 2.6.31
>
> Signed off my Mark Allyn <mark.a.allyn@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/Kconfig | 2 +
> drivers/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/rar_register/Kconfig | 17 +

rar_register is really bad name. It is simultaneously too long and too
abberviated.

> +menu "RAR Register Driver"
> +#
> +# The new 8250/16550 serial drivers
> +config RAR_REGISTER
> + tristate "Restricted Access Region Register Driver"
> + depends on MRST

Serial driver?

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