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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Mark Allyn <mark.a.allyn@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@linux.intel.com,
	charles.f.johnson@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restricted Access Region Register driver for Intel MID devices
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:13:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6766.1247148820@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:00:12 PDT." <1247083212-17331-1-git-send-email-mark.a.allyn@intel.com>

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On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:00:12 PDT, Mark Allyn said:
> This is the device driver for the Restricted Access Region registers on the
> Intel MID device.
> 
> Restricted Access Regions are areas of memory that are not accessable to the
> i86 processor.

This text should appear in the Kconfig entry down below.

'i86' - typo, or a new device that just looks like a typo?

> +++ b/drivers/rar_register/Kconfig
> @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
> +#
> +# Serial device configuration
> +#
> +
> +menu "RAR Register Driver"
> +#
> +# The new 8250/16550 serial drivers
> +config RAR_REGISTER
> +	tristate "Restricted Access Region Register Driver"
> +	depends on MRST

Presumably, a yet-to-appear-in-my-inbox (but possibly in-flight) patch
will define this...

> +	default y
> +	---help---
> +		This driver allows other kernel drivers access to the
> +		contents of the restricted access region control 
> +		registers. 

As noted above, this should mention what chipset(s) these control registers
are found on.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-09 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-08 20:00 Mark Allyn
2009-07-09  8:54 ` Andrey Panin
2009-07-09 14:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2009-07-09 23:20 ` Pavel Machek

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