Messages in this thread |  | | | From | H Hartley Sweeten <> | | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:15:17 -0500 | | Subject | RE: [PATCH] new helper to define common struct resource constructs |
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On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:42 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 13 July 2011 23:18:49 Andrew Morton wrote: >>> On Monday 11 July 2011, Uwe Kleine-K__nig wrote: >>>> resource definitions that just define start, end and flags = IORESOURCE_MEM >>>> or IORESOURCE_IRQ (with start=end) are quite common. So introduce a shortcut >>>> for them. Also make available a macro to specify named resources of both >>>> types which are less common. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K____nig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> >>> >>> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> >>> >>> What do others think, is this worthwhile? >>> Should we also define macros for IORESOURCE_IO and IORESOURCE_DMA? >>> >> >> It would help if we could see some usage examples (ie: sample >> conversions), to get a better idea of the value of this. > > Uwe posted a patch '[PATCH] ARM: mxc: use new helpers to define > common struct resource entries' that converts one ARM platform to use > it, with reasonable outcome: > > 26 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 308 deletions(-)
ep93xx doesn't have that many but converting it's core.c gives:
1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
Regards, Hartley
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