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

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Message-ID: <20190818090334.GA20462@lst.de>
Date:   Sun, 18 Aug 2019 11:03:34 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        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, Aug 16, 2019 at 02:01:34PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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 ;)

Oops, the changelog needs updating vs the first version of course.