Re: [PATCH 38/42] drivers: gpio: vr41xx: use devm_platform_ioremap_resource()

[Florian Fainelli]

On 3/12/2019 8:42 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 12.03.19 12:37, Thierry Reding wrote:
> 
>> The driver currently doesn't request the memory described in the
>> resource, so technically you're changing behaviour here and with your
>> change the driver could now fail if somebody else has already claimed
>> the memory.
> 
> hmm, using w/o requesting/claiming - isn't that a bug ?

Not necessarily, before regmap existed, you could have very well
delegated a subset of a larger resource to a specific driver while a
driver requesting that larger resource would be responsible for doing
the request_mem_region(). As long as both drivers don't stomp on each
other, this is a perfectly valid way to delegate, yet keep things
modular/separate.
-- 
Florian