On Friday 01 February 2008 19:18:09 James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:37 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote: > > This patch (v0.4.6) adds
> Some pieces of the patch are obviously wrong: find_ibft() shouldn't be > in ibft_init ... if ibft_phys was zero, it means the bootmem reservation > wasn't done and you shouldn't be poking about in memory which has likely > now been overwritten. Fixed. > > Also, why is ibft_phys the global variable you pass? You never actually > want to use the physical address, what you always end up using is the > kernel virtual address. > > I'd simply use the ibft variable to point to the virtual address of the > ibft or null if not found, then you can throw out all the phys_to_virt() > calls. Fixed. > > Also, move the reserve_bootmem into the ibft_find routines and ensure > they're only called once on boot. Refuse to attach the ibft driver if > the virtual pointer ibft is null. James, Thanks for your review. If you wouldn't mind, can you take a look at the version 0.4.7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/8/350) which has your suggestions incorporated. Thanks again. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/