Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCHv1 1/8] ALSA: Add SAI SoC Digital Audio Interface driver.

From: Lars-Peter Clausen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:33:28 +0200

On 10/17/2013 03:22 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>>>> >>+    res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
>>>> >>+    sai->base = devm_ioremap_resource(&pdev->dev, res);
>>> >
>>> >Why not use of_iomap()?
>> Because it won't check for conflicting resource regions.
> 
> Maybe I've been out of the loop for too long, but why is that a particular
> problem with this driver?

It is usually something you'd want to check in general to make sure that you
don't have multiple device that access the same iomem region at the same time.

- Lars