Re: [PATCH 0/5] mfd: replace IORESOURCE_IO by IORESOURCE_MEM

From: Russell King
Date: Tue Aug 07 2012 - 07:32:42 EST


On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 11:28:27AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> If we introduce a new IORESOURCE_OTHER, I would actually prefer to
> define it to 0x00000000 for purely aesthetic reasons, the effect
> should be the same as using 0x00000300.

I'd suggest not, because we can use that to detect uninitialized
resources (and we probably do so in some places.) IOW, I think that's
asking for problems when this moves outside platform code.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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