Re: [PATCH 02/05] resource: add resource_type() and IORESOURCE_TYPE_BITS

Ben Dooks
2008-07-18T08:33:28Z

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 05:24:59PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> wrote:
> > You are changing a simple test to a mask and compare, is anyone going
> > to produce resources with an IORESOURCE_MEM and an IORESOURCE_IO
> > together?
>
> Actually, I'd like to replace the one-bit-per-type strategy with a
> N-bit counter. But that is not very compatible with the case you are
> pointing out. I'm not sure if that's a combination we really want to
> support though. Both IRQ and DMA doesn't make much sense to me. =)

I'm not saying it is a bad idea, I just do not know if anyone is
currently relying on this to work...

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