[PATCH] resource: provide 0args DEFINE_RES variant for unset resource desc

From: Christian Marangi

Date: Wed Dec 10 2025 - 13:04:27 EST


Provide a variant of DEFINE_RES that takes 0 arguments to inizialize an
"unset" resource descriptor.

This should be used for the improper case of

struct resource res = {};

where DEFINE_RES() should be used.

With this new helper variant, it would result in:

struct resource res = DEFINE_RES();

instead of having to define the full 3 arguments:

struct resource res = DEFINE_RES(0, 0, IORESOURCE_UNSET);

DEFINE_RES() with no args, will set the flags to IORESOURCE_UNSET
signaling the resource descriptor is UNSET and doesn't reflect an actual
resource currently.

Suggested-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/ioport.h | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ioport.h b/include/linux/ioport.h
index d3e837eb8760..ebdbaaf7a520 100644
--- a/include/linux/ioport.h
+++ b/include/linux/ioport.h
@@ -168,8 +168,13 @@ enum {

#define DEFINE_RES_NAMED(_start, _size, _name, _flags) \
DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC(_start, _size, _name, _flags, IORES_DESC_NONE)
-#define DEFINE_RES(_start, _size, _flags) \
+#define __DEFINE_RES0() \
+ DEFINE_RES_NAMED(0, 0, NULL, IORESOURCE_UNSET)
+#define __DEFINE_RES3(_start, _size, _flags) \
DEFINE_RES_NAMED(_start, _size, NULL, _flags)
+#define DEFINE_RES(...) \
+ CONCATENATE(__DEFINE_RES, COUNT_ARGS(__VA_ARGS__)) \
+ (__VA_ARGS__)

#define DEFINE_RES_IO_NAMED(_start, _size, _name) \
DEFINE_RES_NAMED((_start), (_size), (_name), IORESOURCE_IO)
--
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