Re: [PATCH v7 03/22] axonram: Fix bug in direct_access

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed Apr 02 2014 - 15:25:05 EST


On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 05:22:16PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Sun 23-03-14 15:08:29, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > The 'pfn' returned by axonram was completely bogus, and has been since
> > 2008.
> Maybe time to drop the driver instead? When noone noticed for 6 years, it
> seems pretty much dead... Or is there some possibility the driver can get
> reused for new HW?

It may be in use, just not with the -o xip option to ext2 ... I can't
find out which of the various vendors on the internet that are called
'Axon' that this device was originally supposed to support. I suspect
it's dead, since it's DDR-2, but *shrug*, it costs little to fix it.
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