Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in __request_region() | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:49:12 +0000 |
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> 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
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