Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:05:55 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [DRIVER MODEL] Allow overlapping resources for platform devices |
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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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