On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:48:54PM -0700, Badguy Badguy wrote:

2.6.35
2.6.38-rc2
 neither of these worked, provide various dynamic address results for
the registers,
 when read do not conform to expected results.

here are some examples, I am iounmap and kfree when removing correctly
but I still get a new address for each insert, after removal,
this does not happen on 2.6.19.2, it's always the same.

Address: 0xC48A0000
MBX1_GLOBREG_REVISION: 0x00000000

Address: 0xC48A8000
MBX1_GLOBREG_REVISION: 0x00000000

Address: 0xC48B8000
MBX1_GLOBREG_REVISION: 0x00000000

Address: 0xC48C0000
MBX1_GLOBREG_REVISION: 0x00000000

 I have been trying to understand the code behind ioremap, and the
changes involved.

I can't say why you can't access the registers, but as far as the above
goes, please check /proc/vmallocinfo after each insert and remove, and
report anything which looks wrong.

You should see a new entry when you insert, and that entry removed when
you remove your module.  Check that you're calling iounmap() with the
right arguments too.

It might help if you posted a cut-down version of your code which just
demonstrates the problem so others with an iMX31 can try it too.