Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] resource: Add @flags to region_intersects()

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:54:19AM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote:
> Adding a new type for regular memory will require inspecting the codes
> using IORESOURCE_MEM currently, and modify them to use the new type if
> their target ranges are regular memory.  There are many references to this
> type across multiple architectures and drivers, which make this inspection
> and testing challenging.

What's wrong with adding a new type_flags to struct resource and not
touching IORESOURCE_* at all?

They'll be called something like RES_TYPE_RAM, _PMEM, _SYSMEM...

Or would that confuse more...?

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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