linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] resource: add a not device managed request_free_mem

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Date:   Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:01:34 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] resource: add a not device managed
 request_free_mem_region variant

On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 08:54:31 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:

> Just add a simple macro that passes a NULL dev argument to
> dev_request_free_mem_region, and call request_mem_region in the
> function for that particular case.

Nit:

> +struct resource *request_free_mem_region(struct resource *base,
> +		unsigned long size, const char *name);

This isn't a macro ;)