linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] input: keyboard: tegra: use devm

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:32:48 +0100
From:	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
	grant.likely@...retlab.ca, rob.herring@...xeda.com,
	swarren@...dia.com, devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] input: keyboard: tegra: use devm_* for resource
 allocation

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:24:11PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2013, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > It certainly sounds like a less complicated way to do it. But it also
> > involves adding a function with a made up name and drop a function with
> > a perfectly good name instead. I wouldn't even know what name to choose
> > for the new API.
> > 
> 
> How about devm_ioremap_resource()? Sounds equally fitting, and is shorter.

2 cents, I wrote back then:

* the new function is not named 'devm_ioremap_resource' because it does more than
  just ioremap, namely request_mem_region. I didn't want to create implicit
  knowledge here.

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