Re: [PATCH] Custom IORESOURCE Class

[Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:00:21AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:11:45AM -0700, Matthew Gilbert wrote:
> > Below is a patch that adds an additional resource class to the platform 
> > resource types. This is to support additional resources that need to be passed
> > to drivers without overloading the existing specific types. In my case, I need
> > to send clock information to the driver to enable power management. 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Gilbert <mgilbert@mvista.com>
> 
> Hm, you do realize that Pat's no longer the driver core maintainer?  :)
> 
> Anyway, Russell and Adam, any objections to this patch?

I'm not sure if I agree with this patch.  "struct resource" is used primarily for
I/O resource assignment.  Although I agree we may need to add new IORESOURCE types,
I'm not sure if clock data belongs here.  I don't think "start" and "end" would be
useful for most platform data.  Could you provide more information about this
specific issue and resource type?  Maybe we could create a new sysfs attribute?

Thanks,
Adam