Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268877AbUIMSyo (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:54:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268870AbUIMSwU (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:52:20 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:5798 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268864AbUIMSvX (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:51:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:51:20 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Tonnerre Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Add sparse "__iomem" infrastructure to check PCI address usage Message-ID: <20040913185120.GD23987@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <200409110726.i8B7QTGn009468@hera.kernel.org> <4144E93E.5030404@pobox.com> <414508F6.7020301@pobox.com> <20040913183126.GA19399@thundrix.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040913183126.GA19399@thundrix.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 667 Lines: 17 On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 08:31:26PM +0200, Tonnerre wrote: > Salut, > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:00:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Generally, you shouldn't ever use __force in a driver or anything like > > that. > > Why don't we send the __force attribute into some #ifdef that is never > defined unless you're in arch specific code? This way we'd prevent > stupid people from doing stupid things. man grep - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/