[PATCH 6/7] Add dcr_map_reg() helper

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Oct 2 16:22:45 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:51 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:19 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 16:05 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > Add a helper routine to map dcr's based on the "dcr-reg" property of
> > > a device node.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be more consistent to call it of_map_dcr ? Or maybe find an
> > even better name, but dcr_map_reg really sucks :-)
> 
> That would give us dcr_map(), dcr_unmap() and of_map_dcr() - which
> doesn't strike me as more consistent.
> 
> I don't particularly like dcr_map_reg(), but I think it's at least
> obvious that it's a variant of dcr_map() and that it has something to do
> with a "reg" .. maybe even a "dcr-reg" :)

dcr_map_node maybe ? dcr_map_device ? dcr_map_property ? hrm...
allright, keep it that way if you want but heh, at least see if you can
come up with something better before it gets merged :-)

Ben




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