Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:54:15 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>, ak@muc.de,
       ebiederm@xmission.com, rdreier@cisco.com, gregkh@suse.de,
       airlied@skynet.ie, tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       arjan@infradead.org, "Barnes, Jesse" <jesse.barnes@intel.com>,
       davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 02/11] PAT x86: Map only usable memory in x86_64
	identity map and kernel text
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* Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:50:41PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 
>  > (Personally, I keep a copy of Arjan's "restrict devmem" patch from Fedora
>  > around, so I guess that says which camp I belong in, and the fact it's a Fedora
>  > patch and not mainstream says something too...)
> 
> The way that patch is right now (and has been for some time) is kind 
> of nasty, and could use cleaning up.  I made a half-assed attempt at 
> improving it a little over xmas, but it could rewriting from scratch. 
> That's the only reason I never bothered pushing it (and I assume, the 
> reason that Arjan didn't push it when he wrote the original).

could someone please send it into this thread so that we can have a go 
at integrating it into x86.git?

	Ingo
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