Re: [PATCH 1/3] MFD: introduce lpc_sch for Intel SCH LPC bridge

[Mike Rapoport]

Samuel,

Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:03:17 +0200, Denis Turischev wrote:
>> Jean Delvare wrote:
>>> Might be a good idea to use acpi_check_resource_conflict() or similar
>>> before instantiating the platform devices.
>> May be it worth to add such resource check directly to mfd_add_device function?
> 
> I'm not sure. I suspect that many MFD devices are never used on
> ACPI-aware systems, so it might be considered overkill. OTOH the calls
> resolve to empty stubs when ACPI is disabled so... I have no objection,
> but I'll leave the decision to somebody else ;)
> 

What do you think? Shall we add something like mfd_verify_resources that will call
acpi_check_region or something similar?


-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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