linux-kernel - Re: [RFC,PATCHSET] Managed device resources

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Date:	Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:19:16 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCHSET] Managed device resources

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 12:18:33AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> This patchset implements managed device resources, in short, devres.

<good writeup snipped>

I like this.  It feels a bit awkward, and creating a bunch of duplicate
functions is "messy", but I can't think of any other way to achive this.

Your writeup in this message is also quite good, care to add it to the
Documentation/ directory in the kernel?

> ## Patchset
> 
> This patchset contains the following 12 patches and is against the
> current 2.6.20-rc2 (3bf8ba38f38d3647368e4edcf7d019f9f8d9184a).
> 
> 01	: implement devres core
> 02-06	: implement managed resource interface for IO region, IRQ, DMA,
> 	  PCI and iomap

Unless anyone objects, I'll add the first 6 patches here to my tree for
testing in -mm for a bit.

Hm, but I guess without the follow-up patches for libata, it will not
really get tested much.  Jeff, if I accept this, what's your feelings of
letting libata be the "test bed" for it?

thanks,

greg k-h
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