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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:17:03 +0100
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
To: trenn@...e.de
CC: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
"Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
"yakui.zhao" <yakui.zhao@...el.com>,
akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] PNP cleanups - Unify the pnp macros to access resources
in the pnp resource table
On 20-11-07 10:51, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> Unify the pnp macros to access resources in the pnp resource table
>
> port, mem, dma and irq resource macros are now all used in the same
> way. This is the basis (or makes it at least easier) for changing how
> the resources are allocated for memory optimizations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
Acked-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
as identity transformation again.
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Normally when I get a big tree-wide patch like this I'll just drop the
> hunks which get rejects so that the patch doesn't screw up other people's
> trees if I merge first.
>
>
>> >
>> > Index: linux-2.6.24-rc2/include/linux/pnp.h
>> > ===================================================================
>> > --- linux-2.6.24-rc2.orig/include/linux/pnp.h
>> > +++ linux-2.6.24-rc2/include/linux/pnp.h
>> > @@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ struct pnp_dev;
>> > (pnp_mem_end((dev),(bar)) - \
>> > pnp_mem_start((dev),(bar)) + 1))
>> >
>> > -#define pnp_irq(dev,bar) ((dev)->res.irq_resource[(bar)].start)
>> > #define pnp_irq_start(dev,bar) ((dev)->res.irq_resource[(bar)].start)
>> > #define pnp_irq_end(dev,bar) ((dev)->res.irq_resource[(bar)].end)
>> > #define pnp_irq_flags(dev,bar) ((dev)->res.irq_resource[(bar)].flags)
>> > @@ -63,7 +62,6 @@ struct pnp_dev;
>> > ((pnp_irq_flags((dev),(bar)) & (IORESOURCE_IRQ | IORESOURCE_UNSET)) \
>> > == IORESOURCE_IRQ)
>> >
>> > -#define pnp_dma(dev,bar) ((dev)->res.dma_resource[(bar)].start)
>
> But if I do that, we'll get build breakage.
>
> And we'll break any files which you missed in the conversion, or which
> people currently have queued in the subsystem trees, or which people are
> maintaining out-of-tree.
>
> Hence I'd suggest that we retain the above as back-compatibility wrappers
> for a while.
And Shaohua Li wrote:
> patches are great. I have a minor comment. Keep pnp_irq and pnp_dma and
> define them as pnp_irq_start and pnp_dma_start. pnp_irq_start and
> pnp_dma_start is a little confusing from a pnp driver point of view.
Rene.
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