Re: [PATCH 01/19] pci: introduce an pci_ioremap(pdev, barnr) function

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Mon Sep 29 2008 - 14:27:06 EST


On Monday, September 29, 2008 11:15 am Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:45:19 +0100
>
> Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > This is the same like pci_iomap(pdev, number, 0), no?
> > >
> > > Yeah... Looks like that function isn't that widely used though. Is
> > > the maxlen param really needed? Looks like the drivers that use it
> > > often pass 0 or the
> >
> > In some cases yes you do need the length.
>
> so we should have a 2nd api for those "some cases", that's ok.

Right, I'm definitely not suggesting that we don't provide a way to provide
length, but if 90+% of callers don't need it, we should probably have a
simpler API that does the bare minimum.

Jesse
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