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    iomap: make the default iomap functions fail softer · 6cbf0c70
    Linus Torvalds authored
    We used to BUG_ON() for a badly mapped IO port, which is certainly
    correct, but actually made it harder to debug the case where the ATA
    drivers had incorrectly mapped a nonconnected ATA port.
    
    So make badly mapped ports trigger a WARN_ON(), and throw the IO away
    instead (and return all ones for reads).  For things like broken driver
    initialization - which is the most likely cause anyway - that should
    mean that the machine comes up and is usable (at least that was the case
    for the ATA breakage that triggered this patch).
    
    It tends to be a whole lot easier to do a "dmesg" on a working machine
    than to try to capture logs off a dead one.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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