[PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP2+: Prevent potential crash if GPMC probe fails

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Fri Feb 1 17:08:04 EST 2013


* Jon Hunter <jon-hunter at ti.com> [130201 08:42]:
> If the GPMC probe fails, devices that use the GPMC (such as ethernet
> chips, flash memories, etc) can still allocate a GPMC chip-select and
> register the device. On the OMAP2420 H4 board, this was causing the
> kernel to crash after the gpmc probe failed and the board attempted
> to start networking. Prevent this by marking all the chip-selects as
> reserved by default and only make them available for devices to request
> if the GPMC probe succeeds.

Thanks applying into omap-for-v3.9/gpmc.

Regards,

Tony



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