Re: [PATCH 6/13] devres: implement managed iomap interface

[Tejun Heo]

Kumar Gala wrote:
> > > but there is no reason not to make it work properly.  For example I  
> > > believe libata uses devm_* and the fsl SATA driver (non-PCI) will 
> > > need  to work in cases similar to the 44x.
> >
> >   Well, as for sata_fsl, it calls of_iomap() which does The Right Thing.
>
> Fair, but I don't see why we should introduce new APIs that are already 
> "broken".  We went through a lot of effort to clean up and introduce 
> resource_t (and clearly still have some bugs) for the >32-bit physical 
> address problem.

Yes, please go ahead.  In case it wasn't clear, I wasn't objecting to 
the fix at all.  I was just curious what could actually happen on x86.

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tejun
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