Hi, * Janusz Krzysztofik <jkrzyszt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [120430 11:15]: > Dnia czwartek, 26 kwietnia 2012 08:20:59 Artem Bityutskiy pisze: > > On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 19:01 +0200, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote: > > > Both drivers use separate subsets of registers that belong to the > OMAP1 > > > MPU I/O device, but are used for controlling different sets of I/O > pins. > > > The NAND driver reads/writes the folowing registers: > > > - OMAP_MPUIO_INPUT_LATCH, > > > - OMAP_MPUIO_OUTPUT, > > > - OMAP_MPUIO_IO_CNTL, > > > while the keypad driver - the following: > > > - OMAP_MPUIO_KBR_LATCH, > > > - OMAP_MPUIO_KBC, > > > - OMAP_MPUIO_KBD_MASKIT > > > - OMAP_MPUIO_GPIO_DEBOUNCING. > > > Both subsets are non-overlapping, and we rely on the drivers being > free > > > of bugs and doing their job correctly, not stepping on each others' > > > feet, I guess. > > > > First of all, I think this information should be in the commit > message. > > Also, some sort of comment in the driver code would be nice. > > > > If locking the memory region is too coarse approach, the should have a > > small separate omap-specific MPUIO subsystem which will be used by > > drivers to access MPUIO? > > > > Another question - should request_mem_region() be also removed from > the > > omap-gpio driver then? I think it is more sensible to put a comment > > there that it is sharing MPIO with other drivers, instead of having > an > > illusion of exclusive memory region ownership. > > > > But this is up to the OMAP community - I can take this patch to my > > l2-mtd tree if you get an ack from Tony or other OMAP guys. > > Tony, > Would I get your Ack for this fix if I extend the commit message as Artem > suggested? If not, what do you think should be a correct way to fix the > regression? Well how about adding some exported functions to drivers/gpio/gpio_omap.c like omap_mpuio_latch? For the regression fix, if you guys want to do what Janusz is suggesting, then assuming the patch description also contains some decent long term plan to properly fix it: Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
