On Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:23 pm David Miller wrote: > From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:55:16 -0700 > > > /proc/bus/pci allows you to mmap resource ranges too, so we should > > probably be checking to make sure the mapping is somewhat valid. > > > > My main concern with this patch is that existing userland may be taking > > advantage of the lax checking to map non-resource ranges, but we can > > always back it out if that turns out to be the case. Anyway, comments & > > review appreciated as usual. > > Thanks for doing this, after this is in I can finally remove the checks > in the sparc PCI mmap code. > > I think this change should be safe wrt. the previous lax checking. Cool. I don't think there's any hurry here, so I'll just queue it up for 2.6.29. Thanks, -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
