Hello Pantelis On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > Either patch fixes (or rather papers over) the problem. > > The way I understand it is that we have two issues. > > 1. The rather obvious crash on device removal. > 2. The of_platform_populate (and the subsequent call to > of_platform_device_create_pdata()) not registering the resources > due to bugs in platforms that do overlapping regions. > > > #1 is fixed but #2 is rather touchy. I believe that after my last patchset also #2 is fixed. The only missing part is applying the shared flag to ONLY the broken OF platforms, not to all. We even have a warning on overlapping resources, that should help the development https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git/tree/drivers/base/platform.c?h=driver-core-testing#n379 Hopefully one day we can merge of and platform :) > > I would like to eventually fix those platforms; starting with a > nice fat warning when using overlapping regions would be nice. > > The problem is how to deal with range definitions that overlap. > Does anyone remember what does the spec say regarding those? > > If the way they are used now in those platform is wrong we should > mark them in some manner in the DT so that the idiom does not propagate. We could easily find out which DT have overlapping resources on the tree... Regars! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
