linux-kernel - Re: MFD cell structure and sharing of resources

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Message-ID: <AANLkTim5U++eXD96D6H_CjrH7HFwsrRnA+bGz_1MCNP8@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:34:47 +0000
From:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...top.org>
To:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Paul Fox <pgf@...top.org>, Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MFD cell structure and sharing of resources

On 10 December 2010 15:37, Daniel Drake <dsd@...top.org> wrote:
> 3. For olpc-xo1-pm and olpc-xo1-sci, forget about hooking into MFD and
> go back to the route of looking for the appropriate device on the PCI
> bus and accessing the regions that way.

That isn't really an option either, because pci_request_region makes
the region exclusive to 1 device.
However, something similar is possible: olpc-xo1-pm reserves the
region and makes it enable to olpc-xo1-sci through an exported symbol.

Daniel
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