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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/ep93xx-fb.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/ep93xx-fb.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/ep93xx-fb.c b/drivers/video/ep93xx-fb.c index 2e830ec52a5..f8babbeee27 100644 --- a/drivers/video/ep93xx-fb.c +++ b/drivers/video/ep93xx-fb.c @@ -519,12 +519,15 @@ static int __devinit ep93xxfb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) goto failed; } - res = request_mem_region(res->start, resource_size(res), pdev->name); - if (!res) { - err = -EBUSY; - goto failed; - } - + /* + * FIXME - We don't do a request_mem_region here because we are + * sharing the register space with the backlight driver (see + * drivers/video/backlight/ep93xx_bl.c) and doing so will cause + * the second loaded driver to return -EBUSY. + * + * NOTE: No locking is required; the backlight does not touch + * any of the framebuffer registers. + */ fbi->res = res; fbi->mmio_base = ioremap(res->start, resource_size(res)); if (!fbi->mmio_base) { @@ -586,8 +589,6 @@ failed: clk_put(fbi->clk); if (fbi->mmio_base) iounmap(fbi->mmio_base); - if (fbi->res) - release_mem_region(fbi->res->start, resource_size(fbi->res)); ep93xxfb_dealloc_videomem(info); if (&info->cmap) fb_dealloc_cmap(&info->cmap); @@ -608,7 +609,6 @@ static int __devexit ep93xxfb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) clk_disable(fbi->clk); clk_put(fbi->clk); iounmap(fbi->mmio_base); - release_mem_region(fbi->res->start, resource_size(fbi->res)); ep93xxfb_dealloc_videomem(info); fb_dealloc_cmap(&info->cmap); |