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

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2015 18:51:36 +0200
From:	Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@...il.com>
To:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...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

Hello Rob,

Thanks for your feedback!

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com> wrote:
> 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.

I just wanted to mimic the original behaviour. Unfortunately I have no
idea of what platform is broken.  Grant needs to help us here :)

What do you think about the new flag? Does it make any sense for you?

Thanks!
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