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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in __request_region()
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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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