linux-kernel - Re: Question of resource

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Message-ID: <1262135514.28789.146.camel@gandalf>
Date:	Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:11:54 +0200
From:	Felipe Balbi <me@...ipebalbi.com>
To:	Ben Nizette <bn@...sdigital.com>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question of resource_size() implementation

On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 12:08 +1100, Ben Nizette wrote:
> IOW it's a matter of convention.  Either we could define a single-byte 
> range to be end=start and put the +1 in the resource_size or we could 
> define a single-byte range to be end=start+1 and leave the +1 out of
> resource_size.  The in-kernel convention is the former

ok, thanks for the explanation Ben.

-- 
balbi

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