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

From Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in __request_region()
Date 2016-02-22 15:00 +0100
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> 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.

Alan

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Re: [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in  __request_region() Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@gmail.com> - 2016-02-19 22:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in  __request_region() Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> - 2016-02-20 00:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in __request_region() Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-02-20 18:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in __request_region() Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> - 2016-02-20 23:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in  __request_region() Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-22 15:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in  __request_region() Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> - 2016-02-22 22:00 +0100

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