linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/of: Make of_io_request_and

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Date:   Wed, 13 Jun 2018 08:53:59 +1000
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/of: Make of_io_request_and_map() "name"
 argument optional

On Tue, 2018-06-12 at 16:18 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:01:07AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > These days of_address_to_resource() puts a reasonable name
> > in the resource struct, thus make the "name" argument an
> > optional override.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> > ---
> > 
> > Just something I noticed ... we should probably update the
> > callers to stop passing stupid names..
> 
> Sounds like a coccinelle patch.

Quite possibly, though I'm absolutely not proficient with coccinelle :-)

> When do we need an actual name passed in? It does get exposed to 
> userspace, but no one seemed to care when names changed from full path 
> (which is commonly used) to just the node name.

Not sure, I had a look at the names looked rather random.

> 
> Rob
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