Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/15] sound/soc/mxs/mxs-saif.c: add missingiounmap

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Thu Jan 26 2012 - 09:07:08 EST


On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Wolfram Sang wrote:

Julia,

iores = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
@@ -663,18 +663,11 @@ static int mxs_saif_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
goto failed_get_resource;
}

- if (!request_mem_region(iores->start, resource_size(iores),
- "mxs-saif")) {
- dev_err(&pdev->dev, "request_mem_region failed\n");
- ret = -EBUSY;
- goto failed_get_resource;
- }
-
- saif->base = ioremap(iores->start, resource_size(iores));
+ saif->base = devm_request_and_ioremap(&pdev->dev, iores);

You can skip checking 'iores', too. I also did that in the example, but
a lot of people seem to miss it.

I can try to do that, but it seems a little bit unintuitive. Perhaps it would be easier for people to remember to put in error handling code when they need it if they always have to do it? If I remove it, there will be one call that has no test and then another call a few lines later that does.

Where did you get the information how
to use devm_request_and_ioremap? I probably need to spread the word even
more...

I saw it in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt and then looked around for some examples.

julia
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