Re: overlapping resources for platform devices?

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

On Nov 17, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Russell King wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:36:38AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> Haven't managed to look at this yet - busy catching up after illness.

Any update?

- kumar