On 02/22/2016 05:49 AM, Alan Cox wrote:

quoted

we have some good alternatives in the form of bus and platform
drivers that
can manage the appropriate serialization and keep things from
stomping
on one another.

It's not used much, especially nowdays. The use case is basically multi
I/O chips on the ISA/LPC bus with magic shared config register ports.

We have sufficiently few of those we could give muxed the boot and
special case them if preferred.

Ah that's right, now I remember the context.  So where should we go from here then?  Just leave the ugly fix in or hack on old stuff and hope not to break it?

Jesse