[PATCH 3/4] powerpc: Use common 52xx of_platform probe code for EFIKA
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jan 11 13:56:53 EST 2007
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 23:02 +0100, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
> About the serial patch :
>
> > I didn't put this one in for 2.6.20, because it doesn't solve any
> > actual problem, and Ben H tells me it might trigger a bug in the
> > generic irq code.
>
> The bug it triggered has been fixed eons ago (like last December 22),
> in a impressive one-liner patch that has 5 Signed-off/Acked-by ;) ...
>
> But that code is rarely executed as it would imply the PSC can be
> unloaded ... (impossible when used as console). So later merge
> is OK.
And there is no real problem in this case for not disposing of the
mapping anyway. You'll just get the same mapping again when you reload
it.
Ben.
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