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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:44:27 +0200
From: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 v3] resource: Add new flag IORESOURCE_MEM_WARN
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On 02/24/2015 10:39 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> 
> Resource providers set this flag if they want
> that request_region_XXX will print a warning in dmesg
> if this particular resource is locked by a driver.
> 
> Thous acting as a Protocol Police about experimental
> devices that did not pass a comity approval.
> 
> The Only user of  this flag is x86/kernel/e820.c that
> wants to WARN about UNKNOWN memory types.
> 

Hi Ingo

So I slept on it and I think this simple version is safe and
does what we need. It is more simple than the wrappers thing

Who can push such a patch, can you push it through your tree or
is there another maintainer that needs to push this?

Who can we ask about the safeness of these flags?

> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
<>

Thanks
Boaz

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