On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> I still haven't seen an answer to why we really care about this; how > many times has code actually allocated the same GPIO/IRQ when it > shouldn't, in a way that it wasn't detectable by some other mechanism, > i.e. the feature just not working? Why are we even trying to solve this > issue? I'm not totally convinced it even makes sense to try and solve it. We care about this because a number of OMAP boards are not working properly when booted from device tree, and they have a hard time figuring out a solution to the problem. Last try exploded. Now they are looking to create a patch that will fix the actual problem. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
