[PATCH] lib: devres: add convenience function to remap a resource
Tejun Heo
tj at kernel.org
Tue Oct 25 11:35:38 EDT 2011
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:16:47PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Almost every platform_driver does the three steps get_resource,
> request_mem_region, ioremap. This does not only lead to a lot of code
> duplication, but also a huge number of similar error strings and
> inconsistent error codes on failure. So, introduce a helper function
> which simplifies remapping a resource and make it hard to do something
> wrong and add documentation for it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh at suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
Greg, can you please take this one?
Thank you.
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tejun
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