Hello Grant

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Grant Likely <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I think I tried that too and then ran in to a problem where drivers will
> fail if a different device 'owns' the resource.
>
> For example, if device-a and device-b have overlapping regions, device-a
> gets registered first and claims the region. device-b tries to claim the
> region, fails, but is allowed to continue anyway. When driver-b tries to
> bind to device-b, and does a request_resource(), it will fail because
> device-a already owns it. I don't have a good solution for that other
> than to completely disable insert_resource() when using devicetree.

If someone is following this conversation I have already replied in

[PATCH v5 2/4] base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error

Message-ID: <capybu_3gyazthhyd7y2mdkfjbwdvyb5a9fwqqemc+0xmkst...@mail.gmail.com>

Regards!

>
> g.



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