Re: [PATCH] fix ppc ioremap prototype

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:59:33PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > 2. The resource tree won't know about the upper bits or whatever sitting
> >    in flags, and as such identical addresses on two different buses will
> >    clash.
> > 
> > Resource start,end needs to be some unique quantity no matter which (PCI)
> > bus you are on.
> 
> They are non-overlapping for PCI buses in the same domain.  Perhaps
> the sensible thing is to have a separate resource tree for each PCI
> domain (actually two trees, for I/O and memory space), and have them
> contain bus addresses rather than physical addresses.  I don't know if
> the generic iomem_resource and ioport_resource are still useful if we
> do that.

I thought I pointed out that this approach would break request_region
and request_mem_region, which are the work-horses of the "this region
of space is busy".

Someone would have to (somehow) fix up all drivers which use those
functions...

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