Re: [PATCH 1/7] mfd: max8925: Move _IO resources out of ioport_ioresource

Arnd Bergmann
2012-08-07T19:47:02Z

On Tuesday 07 August 2012, Mark Brown wrote:
> The removal of mach/io.h from most ARM platforms also set the range of
> valid IO ports to be empty for most platforms when previously any 32
> bit integer had been valid. This makes it impossible to add IO resources
> as the added range is smaller than that of the root resource for IO ports.
>
> Since we're not really using IO memory at all fix this by defining our
> own root resource outside the normal tree and make that the parent of
> all IO resources. This also ensures we won't conflict with read IO ports
> if we ever run on a platform which happens to use them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.4+)

(whole series)

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Thanks a lot for following through with this series! I would have
preferred to have the second step in stable as Russell suggested,
but since you did all the work, I'm not going to complain about it ;-)

Arnd