cheers for now,
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:00:55PM +0200, Morten Helgesen wrote:
> Hey guys.
>
> It`s time for some real janitor work :)
>
> I`ve taken a clean 2.5.22 tree, and started removing
> instances of check_region(). It has been on the kernel janitors`
> TODO list for a long time.
>
> It struck me that it might be a good idea to see if anyone had any comments
> or even objections before spending X hours killing it off :-)
>
> I see that there are lots of places where we can just remove
> check_region() and instead just check the return value from
> request_region(), but I`m also sure we have corner cases where
> driver authors are doing 'nifty' things with check_region(), and
> these drivers might need a bit more surgery. I will contact
> the driver authors and ask for their comments if I can not figure out
> how to work around using check_region() in the specific driver.
>
> When done, I`ll submit separate patches for separate directories.
>
> Does this sound like a sane approach to you guys ?
>
> == Morten
>
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>
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>
> mvh
> Morten Helgesen
> UNIX System Administrator & C Developer
> Nextframe AS
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