Re: [PATCH 01/19] pci: introduce an pci_ioremap(pdev, barnr) function

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:45:19 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > > This is the same like pci_iomap(pdev, number, 0), no?
> > 
> > Yeah... Looks like that function isn't that widely used though.  Is
> > the maxlen param really needed?  Looks like the drivers that use it
> > often pass 0 or the 
> 
> In some cases yes you do need the length.

so we should have a 2nd api for those "some cases", that's ok.

> 
> > BAR length anyway, and Arjan converted existing drivers too, which
> > is where the real work is.
> 
> He could have converted them to the existing perfectly good API not
> invented another one. He still can - I'm sure its a perl one liner to
> redo them in terms of pci_iomap()

pci_iomap() assumes you're using the rest of the iomap API as well!

most drivers do not do that.




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