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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] mfd: replace IORESOURCE_IO by IORESOURCE_MEM
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:42:12PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Mark Brown

> > This isn't much more appropriate - _MEM is for memory ranges so isn't
> > directly relevant to register addresses either. If anything _IO is
> > slightly nearer.

> I use register resource to distinguish different components now. For
> example, component driver
> needs to access the registers in PMIC. These registers offsets are set
> in 88pm860x-core.c.

I understand this.

> So I think that it may not be called _IO.

Right, but _MEM isn't terribly relevant either. If anything _IO is a
bit better as ioports are *somewhat* similar to registers.


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