[RFC 3/4] lib: devres: add convenience function to remap a resource

[tj@kernel.org (Tejun Heo)]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:09:33PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > So, for library functions, it's nice if the function doesn't hold any
> > extra resource on error return.  devres has grouping to support this.
> > You just need to wrap allocations inside a group and remove it on
> > success and release on error.  ie.
> > 
> > 	if (!devres_open_group(dev, NULL, GFP_KERNEL))
> > 		return NULL;
> > 	if (alloc_resource(0) < 0)
> > 		goto fail;
> > 	if (alloc_resource(1) < 0)
> > 		goto fail;
> > 	devres_remove_group(dev, NULL);
> > 	return 0;
> > fail:
> > 	devres_release_group(dev, NULL);
> > 	return 0;
> 
> I am not sure I got what you mean here, but wouldn't it be easier to simply
> call devm_release_mem_region() when devm_ioremap comes back with a NULL
> pointer?

Oh, yeah, that would work too. :)

Thanks.

-- 
tejun