[PATCH 00/33] Use common macro to define resources

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Apr 25 07:35:21 EDT 2012


On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:21:47AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Note that the point of the DEFINE_RES_*() macros is really to prevent
> people from coming up with new silly macros to do the same thing, as
> we've had in the past.

One of the other reaons was to stop the stream of resources with wrong
endings (because people kept thinking it was exclusive rather than
inclusive) - and the resulting stream of additional patches to fix those
errors.

The legacy platforms do have those kinds of errors - when I converted
SA11x0 as part of a previous patch set, I found a number suffering from
this error.  (Were any found in this patch set?  I've not read through
it.)

I think if this becomes a small %age of the change to Samsung stuff,
and Kukjin is happy with it, it should go in.




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