[PATCH v2 2/4] input: keyboard: tegra: use devm_* for resource allocation

Wolfram Sang w.sang at pengutronix.de
Tue Jan 15 23:32:48 EST 2013


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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