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On Nov 17, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:36:38AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: >>>> 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?>> Haven't managed to look at this yet - busy catching up after illness. Any update? - kumar - 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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