linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/30] USB: ehci-omap: Use devm_request_and

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:34:53 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
cc:	Roger Quadros <rogerq@...com>, <tony@...mide.com>,
	<sameo@...ux.intel.com>, <balbi@...com>,
	<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, <eballetbo@...il.com>,
	<javier@...hile0.org>, <sshtylyov@...sta.com>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/30] USB: ehci-omap: Use devm_request_and_ioremap()

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:17:33AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Roger Quadros wrote:
> > 
> > > Make use of devm_request_and_ioremap() and correct comment.
> > 
> > Didn't a big patch come through recently converting all usages of 
> > devm_request_and_ioremap() to another function (I forget the name) that 
> > does its own error reporting and returns an ERR_PTR value?
> > 
> > (Checks the mailing list archive...)  Ah, here it is:
> > 
> > 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=135876311801537&w=2
> > 
> > And the new function is devm_ioremap_resource().  We should avoid 
> > adding new usages of an old interface.
> 
> Maybe... if devm_ioremap_resource() was already in the kernel.  The
> problem at the moment is it isn't, and it'll probably be rather
> horrid for everyone to deal with especially when it comes to testing.

Not in the kernel yet?  I didn't realize that.  Looks like Thierry 
Reding will have some clean-up work to do when it does get in.

Okay, then

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>

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