From: gregkh@suse.de (Greg KH)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] lib: devres: add convenience function to remap a resource
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:17:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111026121706.GC23457@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111025153538.GA13012@google.com>
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 08:35:38AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:16:47PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > Almost every platform_driver does the three steps get_resource,
> > request_mem_region, ioremap. This does not only lead to a lot of code
> > duplication, but also a huge number of similar error strings and
> > inconsistent error codes on failure. So, introduce a helper function
> > which simplifies remapping a resource and make it hard to do something
> > wrong and add documentation for it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
> > Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>
> Greg, can you please take this one?
Ok, I'll queue it up after the 3.2 merge window is over, for the 3.3
release.
thanks,
greg k-h
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: devres: add convenience function to remap a resource
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:17:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111026121706.GC23457@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111025153538.GA13012@google.com>
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 08:35:38AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:16:47PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > Almost every platform_driver does the three steps get_resource,
> > request_mem_region, ioremap. This does not only lead to a lot of code
> > duplication, but also a huge number of similar error strings and
> > inconsistent error codes on failure. So, introduce a helper function
> > which simplifies remapping a resource and make it hard to do something
> > wrong and add documentation for it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
> > Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>
> Greg, can you please take this one?
Ok, I'll queue it up after the 3.2 merge window is over, for the 3.3
release.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-26 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-25 13:16 [PATCH] lib: devres: add convenience function to remap a resource Wolfram Sang
2011-10-25 13:16 ` Wolfram Sang
2011-10-25 15:35 ` Tejun Heo
2011-10-25 15:35 ` Tejun Heo
2011-10-26 12:17 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-10-26 12:17 ` Greg KH
2011-10-26 12:35 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-26 12:35 ` Grant Likely
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