Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 1996 10:13:18 -0500 (EST) | From | Kenneth Albanowski <> | Subject | Re: PNP patch into kernel when? |
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On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > What exactly is the benefit of renaming request_region() and so on? As > > far as I can see, this is just going to break an awful lot of perfectly > > good code for no real purpose. Granted, the current names may not be > > precisely the best, but there's nothing very wrong with them and I think > > I can see in the PnP world there are reasons for this to an extent. However > the existing API should be kept even as macros to use the new API to allocate > resources and mark them as fixed and immutable. I'll even grant thats > slightly false for a few boards but its close to the truth. > > Mass changing the API isnt really acceptable.
You miss one point: Andrew's new resource management code is just that. It isn't PnP specific, it is quite generic and subsumes all of the current disparate mechanisms into a whole. Quite simply, it's a kernel improvement. The fact that it is used by the PnP code is irrelevant. So consider this a long overdue fix instead of a pointless modification.
-- Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)
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