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From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 10:48:37 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] of/platform: Use platform_device interface
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
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Hello Grant

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> wrote:

>
> I think I tried that too and then ran in to a problem where drivers will
> fail if a different device 'owns' the resource.
>
> For example, if device-a and device-b have overlapping regions, device-a
> gets registered first and claims the region. device-b tries to claim the
> region, fails, but is allowed to continue anyway. When driver-b tries to
> bind to device-b, and does a request_resource(), it will fail because
> device-a already owns it. I don't have a good solution for that other
> than to completely disable insert_resource() when using devicetree.

If someone is following this conversation I have already replied in

[PATCH v5 2/4] base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error

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Regards!

>
> g.


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