Re: [PATCH] gianfar_ptp: use iomem, not ioports resource tree in probe

Paul Gortmaker wrote:

Even if it makes sense to convert the driver to of_xxx calls,
I think the obvious bug should be fixed as a separate commit,
so that the -stable folks have something to cherry pick.

Oh, I agree with that.  I was just wondering why an OF-enabled driver
would not use OF calls.  I've never seen that before.  My instinct is that
the original developer had no idea what he was doing, but perhaps there is
a very good reason for the way the driver is written.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale