Re: Modpost warning on Alchemy

[Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > >   No, I don't.  But that was why the original code preferred the wired
> > > entry approach over ioremap() -- not to map a whole range...
> >   Not the only one: dynamic ioremap() seems to be impossible in interrupt
> > context.
>  Well, ioremap() may sleep indeed.
   So, the only viable option of using sofirq() is mapping all the sparce 
2KiB regions at the __init time -- that will waste every half of page though...
>  How about using a softirq then?  
   Using softirq for what?

> Broken hardware (=one that requires PCI configuration accesses from the 
> IRQ context) is not an excuse to extend the breakage over to software.
   That's *at least* impractical argument.

>   Maciej
WBR, Sergei