Re: [DRIVER MODEL] Allow overlapping resources for platform devices

[Russell King]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:15:39AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> There are cases in which a device's memory mapped registers overlap
> with another device's memory mapped registers.  On several PowerPC
> devices this occurs for the MDIO bus, whose registers tended to overlap
> with one of the ethernet controllers.

Hrm, shouldn't the MDIO device be registered by the ethernet driver then?
The MDIO device is a child of the ethernet device - and this also brings
up the question about PM ordering - should the MDIO device be suspended
before or after the ethernet device.

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Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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