Re: [PATCH] Make CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE customizable

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:03:38 +0000 Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:23:46AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> 
> > CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE was increased to 64MB on 2.6.20-rc2, but larger size
> > might result in allocation failure for the reserving itself on some
> > platforms (for example typical 32bit MIPS).  Make it (and
> > CARDBUS_IO_SIZE too) customizable for such platforms.
> 
> Patch looks technically ok to me, so feel free to add my Acked-by: line.
> 
> The grief I have with this sort of patch is that this kind of detailed
> technical knowledge should not be required by a mortal configuring the
> Linux kernel.
> 

Yes, it does rater suck.  A boot option/module parameter would be better.