linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] of/platform: Mark all device tree resources as SHARED

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2015 11:45:22 -0500
From:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
To:	Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@...il.com>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Jakub Sitnicki <jsitnicki@...il.com>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Cliff Wickman <cpw@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of/platform: Mark all device tree resources as SHARED

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
<ricardo.ribalda@...il.com> wrote:
> Some device tree platform do not define their resources properly. i.e.
> overlapping or repeated resources.
>
> This patch mark all device tree resources as shareable.
>
> In the future this should only be set for the platforms that have
> problems.

I don't think we want to do this globally. This should be very rare
and we want to discourage any new cases.

Rob

>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/of/platform.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
> index ddf8e42c9367..89cb502f8812 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
> @@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ struct platform_device *of_device_alloc(struct device_node *np,
>                 if (of_irq_to_resource_table(np, res, num_irq) != num_irq)
>                         pr_debug("not all legacy IRQ resources mapped for %s\n",
>                                  np->name);
> +               for (i = 0; i < num_reg + num_irq; i++, res++)
> +                       dev->resource[i].flags |= IORESOURCE_SHARED;
>         }
>
>         dev->dev.of_node = of_node_get(np);
> --
> 2.1.4
>
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