From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc1] resource_len() utility function
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:29:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071025132939.3fd010f9@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710242138.23252.david-b@pacbell.net>
> So you'd suggest having search utilities (as with platform_bus)
> returning resource indices not resources?
That seems a bad idea to me
> Thing is, BARs are usually well defined, but when folk glue
> resources together they use whatever order is convenient on
> that particular platform. And different platforms can have
> different numbers and types of resources, etc.
Far better I think that pci_ functions that take BAR values end up as
wrappers of the form
pci_iomap(pdev, bar)
return dev_iomap_resource(&pdev->resource[bar]);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-25 1:20 David Brownell
2007-10-25 1:44 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-25 2:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25 2:47 ` David Brownell
2007-10-25 3:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25 4:38 ` David Brownell
2007-10-25 12:29 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-10-25 16:31 ` David Brownell
2007-10-25 2:39 ` David Brownell
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