[Openipmi-developer] [patch 1/1] ipmi: add autosensing of ipmi device on powerpc using device-tree
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Dec 9 09:50:36 EST 2006
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> + info->io.regsize = resource0.end - resource0.start + 1;
> + info->io.regspacing = resource1.start - resource0.start;
>
> Are you sure this is a reliable way to check the register spacing and
> register size? Register size means "how big is a register (8, 16, 32
> bits)". Register spacing means (how many bytes are there between
> registers. If you had two registers that were 8 bits and 4 bytes
> apart, for instance, I don't believe the above calculations would work.
How many registers do we expect here ? Might be better to have one
resource represent the whole MMIO area, and have a separate property
that indicates the stride between 2 registers.
Ben.
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