From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Being more anal about iospace accesses..
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:56:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915165608.GC24892@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0409150859100.2333@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:30:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So right now the current snapshots (and 2.6.9-rc2) have this enabled, and
> some drivers will be _very_ noisy when compiled. Most of the regular ones
> are fine, so maybe people haven't even noticed it that much, but some of
> them were using things like "u32" to store MMIO pointers, and are
> generally extremely broken on anything but an x86. We'll hopefully get
> around to fixing them up eventually, but in the meantime this should at
> least explain the background for some of the new noise people may see.
For the curious, 6MB of sparse output is generated from a make allmodconfig
right now. (http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/2.6.9-rc2-warnings.txt)
You can filter out just the __iomem warnings by grepping for asn:2
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 16:58 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0409150737260.2333@ppc970.osdl.org>
2004-09-15 16:30 ` Being more anal about iospace accesses Linus Torvalds
2004-09-15 16:54 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-15 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-15 17:32 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-15 17:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-15 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-15 19:34 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 19:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-15 20:06 ` Greg KH
2004-09-16 14:58 ` Horst von Brand
2004-09-15 17:45 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-09-15 18:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-15 18:40 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-15 17:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 17:16 ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-15 17:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-15 20:07 ` Russell King
2004-09-15 17:36 ` Horst von Brand
2004-09-15 17:40 ` Brian Gerst
2004-09-15 16:56 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-09-15 17:19 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-15 17:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-09-15 22:21 ` Deepak Saxena
2004-09-15 22:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-15 23:09 ` Deepak Saxena
2004-09-16 12:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-16 22:10 ` Deepak Saxena
2004-09-15 22:29 ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-15 23:26 ` Being more careful " Linus Torvalds
2004-09-16 0:10 ` viro
2004-09-16 11:40 ` David Woodhouse
2004-09-16 12:25 ` David Woodhouse
2004-09-16 14:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-18 9:46 ` Kai Henningsen
2004-09-15 18:25 Being more anal " linux
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