Re: [PATCH] lib: devres: add convenience function to remap a resource

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 08:35:38AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:16:47PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > Almost every platform_driver does the three steps get_resource,
> > request_mem_region, ioremap. This does not only lead to a lot of code
> > duplication, but also a huge number of similar error strings and
> > inconsistent error codes on failure. So, introduce a helper function
> > which simplifies remapping a resource and make it hard to do something
> > wrong and add documentation for it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> 
>  Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Greg, can you please take this one?

Ok, I'll queue it up after the 3.2 merge window is over, for the 3.3
release.

thanks,

greg k-h
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