From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc-smsc911x: add required smsc911x regulators
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 13:08:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120308210825.GY12083@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjhkjj8m.fsf@ti.com>
* Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> [120307 11:05]:
> >
> > I don't think the second smsc911x on the Overo, "smsc911x.1", would
> > find it due to the dev_id.
>
> It's not about finding the second regulator. As stated in the
> changelog, it's about the duplicate attempt to register the exact same
> platform_device.
>
> Duplicate attempts to register the exact same platform_device cause
> kobject to panic and give up[1]. So, any platform that calls
> gpmc_smsc911x_init() twice (Overo and T35 in mainline) will panic on
> boot.
>
> This patch fixes those platforms so they can boot.
Yeah but I guess the second smsc911x instance still would not work,
or am I missing something?
Regards,
Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-08 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-23 14:16 [PATCH v3] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc-smsc911x: add required smsc911x regulators Matt Porter
2012-03-01 20:36 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-03-01 20:45 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-03-05 18:18 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-03-07 16:00 ` Russ Dill
2012-03-07 17:21 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-03-07 19:36 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-03-08 21:08 ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2012-03-08 21:26 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-03-09 0:06 ` Tony Lindgren
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