Hi,

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (2010/09/13 21:45 -0400):
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> I'm agreeing that if iris_init() checks that the user passed 'irisinit.force=1'
> on the command line or as a module parameter, and bailed immediately if it
> wasn't passed, then doing the inb() and testing it should be safe enough. Doing
> stuff that's only known safe on an Iris is no great sin if the user has said
> "Yes, you're on a Iris" - at that point it's the user's fault.

Fine. I'd be happy to submit another patch where the module takes a
force argument if that's okay to you guys.

Shérab.
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