Re: [PATCH 1/5] devres: Move managed io function declarations into device.h

From: Ladislav Michl
Date: Mon Jan 22 2018 - 17:11:31 EST


On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 09:49:03AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 10:15:08PM +0100, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> > Moving managed io function declarations into device.h allows
> > removing forward struct device and resource definitions from
> > io(port).h
>
> In the face of it, what is the issue with forward declarations of device
> and resource structures? device.h is supposed to be about Linux device
> model, not hardware. You would not want all devm_* functions to go into
> device.h (clock, regulator, input, rtc, hwmon, etc, etc devm API),
> right? Why would we want ioport there?

Allright, point taken. Then I would assume devm_ioremap_resource should
be moved from device.h into io.h, to get some consistency, right?
Any other comment (mainly to devm_ioremap_shared_resource) before v2?

Thank you,
ladis