Re: [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] Fix region size check in mpc5200 FEC driver

["Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On 11/1/07, Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de> wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> Grant Likely schrieb:
> > From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> >
> > Driver shouldn't complain if the register range is larger than what
> > it expects.  This works around failures with some device trees.
> >
>
> But maybe the firmware guys like to know about it?
> May I suggest putting this in front of the other check?
>
> if ((mem.end - mem.start + 1) > sizeof(struct mpc52xx_fec)) {
>                 printk(KERN_DEBUG DRIVER_NAME
>                         " - gratious resource size (%lx > %x), check mpc52xx_devices.c\n",
>                         (unsigned long)(mem.end - mem.start + 1), sizeof(struct mpc52xx_fec));

Personally, I'm not concerned about it.  Even if the device tree says
the range is larger than what the driver knows about it is not
technically an error. If a new version of the chip appears that is
compatible, but defines a larger register range with extra feature
registers, then this message would be erroneously printed.  Finally,
depending on how you read the mpc5200 user guild, it can be 100% valid
to specify the reg size as 0x800 instead of 0x400.

Cheers,
g.

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