Re: Problem with /proc/iomem on ARM

From: Kay Sievers
Date: Wed Jul 01 2009 - 13:55:30 EST


On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 19:32, H Hartley
Sweeten<hartleys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just noticed a problem with /proc/iomem on my ARM system
> that I think was introduced by your patch:
>
> commit 1d559e29138834bbcdf34ac072232bf543bfc4e0
> Author: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Â Tue Jan 6 10:44:43 2009 -0800
>
> Â Âarm: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
>
> Â ÂCc: Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Â ÂSigned-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
> Â ÂSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

> This was seen with kernel 2.6.30. ÂI havn't looked at /proc/iomem for
> a while so I'm not sure when this first started.

Are you sure, 8a577ffc75d9194fe8cdb7479236f2081c26ca1f isn't in your tree?

After all, it seems like this should be fixed in arm somewhere, not to
copy and store internal driver core pointers, but use the device
itself to retrieve the values.

Thanks,
Kay
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