[PATCH 09/30] USB: ehci-omap: Use devm_request_and_ioremap()

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:34:53AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:17:33AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Roger Quadros wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Make use of devm_request_and_ioremap() and correct comment.
> > > 
> > > Didn't a big patch come through recently converting all usages of 
> > > devm_request_and_ioremap() to another function (I forget the name) that 
> > > does its own error reporting and returns an ERR_PTR value?
> > > 
> > > (Checks the mailing list archive...)  Ah, here it is:
> > > 
> > > 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=135876311801537&w=2
> > > 
> > > And the new function is devm_ioremap_resource().  We should avoid 
> > > adding new usages of an old interface.
> > 
> > Maybe... if devm_ioremap_resource() was already in the kernel.  The
> > problem at the moment is it isn't, and it'll probably be rather
> > horrid for everyone to deal with especially when it comes to testing.
> 
> Not in the kernel yet?  I didn't realize that.  Looks like Thierry 
> Reding will have some clean-up work to do when it does get in.

It may be in linux-next, but it isn't in Linus' yet... (of course, it's
probably scheduled for the upcoming merge window).  Certainly:

$ grep -r devm_ioremap_resource include

against Linus' tree (6abb7c2) still turns up nothing.