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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] pinctrl: qcom: Don't allow protected pins to be requested
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On 01/25/2018 03:51 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Sorry I don't get it. Is that some sort of hardening requirement?
> If the framework doesn't cause those pins to be touched I fail to
> see how it could hurt to have the other addresses listed. I'm
> sure with some effort protected addresses could be crafted in
> other ways to cause an XPU violation to the same place.

It's for my own sanity. By ensuring that those physical addresses are
not ever present in the driver or any data structure, I can fend off,
"Hey Timur, your gpio driver is causing XPU violations again, heh heh".

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