[PATCH 2/2] mtd: esb2rom: rework ROM scanning and resources

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 07:49:38 EDT 2012


On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 16:50 -0500, Aaron Sierra wrote:
> This patch collapses the various 4MB limit workarounds of the original
> driver to a single limit when probing the Decode Enable Register. This
> allows the driver to request an iomem region no larger than 4MB and no
> larger than needed. The Intel 3100 chipset hardware that I test on only
> has a 1MB ROM region and I experienced resource conflict warnings with
> the BIOS and a kernel call trace on each boot without this change.
> 
> It also changes the way the ROM region is requested so that it requires
> less manual resource structure manipulation and no longer always fails
> for me.

If this is an independent fix, make it to go first, so it could be
applied independently. Also, if you want make it more probable that
someone review it - please, try to split it on several smaller patches.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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