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Message-ID: <CAN1soZzytOwxnS8oNMhFs1rfwVPwFnZoVsXeaMUc4Kf_TnunkA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 6 Aug 2012 23:56:47 +0800
From:	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...il.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	sameo@...ux.intel.com, rpurdie@...ys.net, bryan.wu@...onical.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bergmann Arnd <arnd@...db.de>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] mfd: replace IORESOURCE_IO by IORESOURCE_MEM

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Mark Brown
<broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:42:12PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Mark Brown
>
>> > This isn't much more appropriate - _MEM is for memory ranges so isn't
>> > directly relevant to register addresses either.  If anything _IO is
>> > slightly nearer.
>
>> I use register resource to distinguish different components now. For
>> example, component driver
>> needs to access the registers in PMIC. These registers offsets are set
>> in 88pm860x-core.c.
>
> I understand this.
>
>> So I think that it may not be called _IO.
>
> Right, but _MEM isn't terribly relevant either.  If anything _IO is a
> bit better as ioports are *somewhat* similar to registers.

The problem is that each bit is already used in 32-bit IORESOURCE. I can't
find a empty bit to define the new IORESOURCE.

Regards
Haojian
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