Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in __request_region() | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Date | Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:46:09 -0800 |
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On 02/22/2016 05:49 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >> we have some good alternatives in the form of bus and platform >> drivers that >> can manage the appropriate serialization and keep things from >> stomping >> on one another. > > It's not used much, especially nowdays. The use case is basically multi > I/O chips on the ISA/LPC bus with magic shared config register ports. > > We have sufficiently few of those we could give muxed the boot and > special case them if preferred.
Ah that's right, now I remember the context. So where should we go from here then? Just leave the ugly fix in or hack on old stuff and hope not to break it?
Jesse
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