[RFC PATCH 1/7] resource: add create_resource() helper function

[Oleksij Rempel]

From: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov at gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov at gmail.com>
---
 common/resource.c      | 15 +++++++++++++++
 include/linux/ioport.h |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/common/resource.c b/common/resource.c
index e4bbe15fd..fa9ffd084 100644
--- a/common/resource.c
+++ b/common/resource.c
@@ -150,3 +150,18 @@ struct resource *request_ioport_region(const char *name,
 
 	return res;
 }
+
+struct resource *create_resource(const char *name,
+	resource_size_t start, resource_size_t end)
+{
+	struct resource *t;
+
+	t = xzalloc(sizeof *t);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&t->children);
+	t->parent = NULL;
+	t->name = xstrdup(name);
+	t->start = start;
+	t->end = end;
+
+	return t;
+}
diff --git a/include/linux/ioport.h b/include/linux/ioport.h
index 3d375a874..2a944cc73 100644
--- a/include/linux/ioport.h
+++ b/include/linux/ioport.h
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ struct resource *__request_region(struct resource *parent,
 		resource_size_t size);
 
 int release_region(struct resource *res);
+struct resource *create_resource(const char *name,
+	resource_size_t start, resource_size_t end);
 
 extern struct resource iomem_resource;
 extern struct resource ioport_resource;
-- 
2.14.1