Re: [PATCH 0/5] mfd: replace IORESOURCE_IO by IORESOURCE_MEM

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 04:58:06PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 11:56:47PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Mark Brown
> 
> > > Right, but _MEM isn't terribly relevant either.  If anything _IO is a
> > > bit better as ioports are *somewhat* similar to registers.
> 
> > The problem is that each bit is already used in 32-bit IORESOURCE. I can't
> > find a empty bit to define the new IORESOURCE.
> 
> That's one reason why I've not attacked this problem myself, but frankly
> I'm totally happy with using _IO here so I've not looked particularly
> closely.

NO.  This is stupid.  We've been here before, and I've said what I'm
saying below before too.

IORESOURCE_IO is for PCI/ISA IO resources.
IORESOURCE_MEM is for _memory mapped_ IO resources.

On ARM, we only have memory mapped IO resources, with the exception that
if we have a real PCI/ISA bus, we give them IORESOURCE_IO resources.

Never use IORESOURCE_IO for anything but PCI/ISA bus IO resources. Ever.

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Russell King
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