Re: [PATCH 01/11] resource: Add System RAM resource type

From: Toshi Kani
Date: Thu Dec 24 2015 - 16:38:14 EST


On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 20:58 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:08:57AM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > As for checkpatch, I noticed that commit 9c0ece069b3 removed "feature
> > -removal.txt" file, and checkpatch removed this check in commit
> > 78e3f1f01d2. checkpatch does not have such check since then. So, I am
> > inclined not to add this check back to checkpatch.
>
> I didn't mean that.
>
> Rather, something along the lines of, for example,
> the DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE matching but match those
> resource matching functions using the strings, i.e.,
> "(walk_iomem_res|find_next_iomem_res|region_intersects)" or so and
> warn when new code uses them and that it should rather use the new
> desc-matching variants.

OK, I will add a check to walk_iomem_res(). I will remove @name from
region_intersects(), and find_next_iomem_res() is an internal function.

Thanks,
-Toshi
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