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From: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
To: jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, eyal@mips.com, zenon@mips.com,
	dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] kernel/resource: enrich the comment for insert_resource_conflict()
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:28:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311852512-7340-3-git-send-email-dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311852512-7340-1-git-send-email-dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>

It helps people better understand how this function works.

Signed-off-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/resource.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
index 3ff4017..5406ecf 100644
--- a/kernel/resource.c
+++ b/kernel/resource.c
@@ -617,7 +617,9 @@ static struct resource * __insert_resource(struct resource *parent, struct resou
  * happens. If a conflict happens, and the conflicting resources
  * entirely fit within the range of the new resource, then the new
  * resource is inserted and the conflicting resources become children of
- * the new resource.
+ * the new resource. Also, if the new resource entirely fits within the range
+ * of a conflicting resource without overlapping the latter's children, then
+ * the new resource is inserted too and becomes a child of the conflicting one.
  */
 struct resource *insert_resource_conflict(struct resource *parent, struct resource *new)
 {
-- 
1.7.1


      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-28 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-28 11:28 [PATCH 0/2] PCI driver to use insert_resource_conflict() to claim resources Deng-Cheng Zhu
2011-07-28 11:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] PCI: make pci_claim_resource() work with conflict resources as appropriate Deng-Cheng Zhu
2011-07-28 11:53   ` Ralf Baechle
2011-07-29  6:32     ` Deng-Cheng Zhu
2011-07-29 17:35       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-08-01 10:13         ` Deng-Cheng Zhu
2011-08-01 15:21           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-07-28 15:59   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-07-29  6:35     ` Deng-Cheng Zhu
2011-07-28 11:28 ` Deng-Cheng Zhu [this message]

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