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