linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] platform: add common resource requesting and mapping helper

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:17:34 +0100
From:	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
To:	Barry Song <Barry.Song@....com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	workgroup.linux@....com, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>,
	Barry Song <Baohua.Song@....com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Erik Gilling <konkers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] platform: add common resource requesting and
 mapping helper

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:00:00PM +0800, Barry Song wrote:
> From: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@....com>
> 
> this patch helps to move the common pattern from
> 
> "
> res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> if (!res) {
> 	ret = -ENODEV;
> 	goto err;
> }

You don't need to do the error checking for 'res'. You can simply do

res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
base = devm_request_and_ioremap(&dev->dev, res);

devm_request_and_ioremap() will check res. Given that, I don't think
we can save a lot with another wrapper.

Thanks,

   Wolfram

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