Re: [RFC] New of_io_release_and_unmap()

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Feb 25 2015 - 14:23:53 EST


On Wednesday 25 February 2015 11:20:41 Joshua Clayton wrote:
> Hello folks,
> I notice that io_request_and_map has no inverse.
> I would like to add a new function to undo what it does.
>

What do you want to use this for? So far all users are in essential drivers
(clk and clocksource) that result in a boot failure if this goes wrong.

Normal drivers can probably always use devm_ioremap_resource(), which
has an automatic cleanup.

Arnd
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