Re: overlapping resources for platform devices?

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 16, 2005, at 12:41 AM, Greg KH wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > I was wondering if there was any issue in changing  
> > platform_device_add to
> > use insert_resource instead of request_resource.  The reason for this
> > change is to handle several cases where we have device registers that
> > overlap that two different drivers are handling.
> >
> > The biggest case of this is with ethernet on a number of PowerPC  
> > based
> > systems where a subset of the ethernet controllers registers are  
> > used for
> > MDIO/PHY bus control.  We currently hack around the limitation by  
> > having
> > the MDIO/PHY bus not actually register an memory resource region.
> >
> > If the following looks good I'll send a more formal patch.
>
> Looks good to me, but Russell knows this code much better than I.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Russell, any issues?

- kumar

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/