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Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:27:16 +0100
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.8-pre2
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On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:17:28PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Please either add resource management code to anakinfb and clps711xfb,
> or apply the patch below.

They're not ISA nor PCI - in fact, they're specific system-on-a-chip
framebuffers.  I therefore don't see the point of your patch.

(Oh, and a bugbear - people go running around adding checks for the
return value of request_region and friends on embedded devices where
there can't be the possibility of a clash waste memory needlessly.)

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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