On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:43:07PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> 
> > It is an alternate and somewhat simpler solution which does not
> > attempt to change the kernel API. My primary goal was to find
> > a solution for the immediate problem between the watchdog and
> > i2c drivers. My solution does not attempt to fix the access problem
> > for (initialization) functions with no return code. At the same time,
> > I prefer to use functions which _do_ return an error if that is possible
> > since it _may_ after all be that there are other users calling
> > request_region().
> > 
> > Having said that, I'll be just as happy if Zoltan's series is accepted
> > instead of this patch (except for patch #5; the watchdog driver has
> > already been converted to use request_muxed_region).
> 
> Thanks for the explanation!
> 
> So, as I understand: I can apply this patch to fix the immediate (and
> long standing) problem and decouple it from the API change. The latter
> can then still be worked on and the changes for the piix driver should
> then be minimal. Correct?

And we should have Zoltan on CC.