Re: overlapping resources for platform devices?

[Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>]

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?

- kumar