Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:10:03 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCHv1 1/8] ALSA: Add SAI SoC Digital Audio Interface driver. |
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 03:51:54PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > On 10/17/2013 03:37 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > I understand that, but I'm trying to figure out why of_iomap() is okay for > > hundreds of other drivers, but not this one. I've used it dozens of times > > myself, without ever worrying about overlapping regions.
> The driver would work fine with just of_iomap(). But the resource range > check comes basically for free and it does help to catch errors, so I'd > recommend on using it rather than not using it.
There's also the fact that it's a devm_ function which means less error handling code that we can break which is nice. There's probably a case for an improved OF helper here... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |