From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@gmail.com>,
Simon Guinot <simon.guinot@sequanux.org>,
Giel van Schijndel <me@mortis.eu>,
linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@gmail.com>,
Yoann Sculo <yoann@sculo.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in __request_region()
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:49:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1456148952.24303.273.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15300c0ce08.2710.f266623ac48c822f02e65082a71b2734@virtuousgeek.org>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-22 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-20 18:03 gpio-f7188x: Fix concurrent GPIO accesses (and minor improvements) Vincent Pelletier
2015-08-20 18:03 ` [1/4] gpio: gpio-f7188x: Use mutex for access serialisation Vincent Pelletier
2015-08-20 18:03 ` [2/4] gpio: gpio-f7188x: GPIO bank 0 bit 0 is not available on f71869a Vincent Pelletier
2015-08-20 18:03 ` [3/4] gpio: gpio-f7188x: "get" should retrieve sensed level when available Vincent Pelletier
2015-08-20 18:03 ` [4/4] gpio: gpio-f7188x: Implement get_direction Vincent Pelletier
2015-08-21 17:52 ` [1/4] gpio: gpio-f7188x: Use mutex for access serialisation Simon Guinot
2015-08-21 20:48 ` Vincent Pelletier
2015-08-22 17:04 ` Vincent Pelletier
2015-09-03 18:05 ` Vincent Pelletier
2015-09-04 7:39 ` Simon Guinot
2015-09-09 22:01 ` Simon Guinot
2015-09-09 22:15 ` [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in __request_region() Simon Guinot
2016-02-19 21:10 ` Vincent Pelletier
2016-02-19 23:25 ` Jesse Barnes
2016-02-20 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-20 22:15 ` Jesse Barnes
2016-02-22 13:49 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2016-02-22 20:46 ` Jesse Barnes
2016-02-23 16:19 ` Simon Guinot
2016-02-23 17:19 ` Jesse Barnes
2016-02-23 21:38 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-02-23 8:00 ` Vincent Pelletier
2015-09-12 13:26 ` [1/4] gpio: gpio-f7188x: Use mutex for access serialisation Vincent Pelletier
2015-09-04 13:48 ` Vincent Donnefort
2015-09-05 7:43 ` Vincent Pelletier
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