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On Monday 11 July 2011, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> resource definitions that just define start, end and flags = IORESOURCE_MEM
> or IORESOURCE_IRQ (with start=end) are quite common. So introduce a shortcut
> for them. Also make available a macro to specify named resources of both
> types which are less common.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

What do others think, is this worthwhile?
Should we also define macros for IORESOURCE_IO and IORESOURCE_DMA?

	Arnd