Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c: Convert release_resource to release_region/release_mem_region

[Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:

> Hi Julia, Kukjin Kim,
> 
> > > Hmm...I think, 'res' is better for platform_get_resource().
> > > Do we _really_ need to change the name?...
> > 
> > wdt_mem is a global variable.  Is res a good name for a global variable?  
> > One could say wdt_mem = res, if that seems better.
> 
> If you look at the code then you have:
> static struct resource  *wdt_mem;
> static struct resource  *wdt_irq;
> 
> and in the probe function you have:
>         res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> 	...
> 	wdt_mem = request_mem_region(res->start, size, pdev->name);
> 	...
> 	wdt_irq = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_IRQ, 0);
> 
> So doing Julia's:
> 	wdt_mem = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> 	...
> 	if (!request_mem_region(wdt_mem->start, size, pdev->name)) {
> 	...
> 	wdt_irq = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_IRQ, 0)
> 
> seems the best solution to me (since you then have both resources being polulated via platform_get_resource(pdev,... ).

Actually, I later realized that one can also use the result of 
request_mem_region in place of res.  Even though it is not the same 
structure, it has the same start and end field information, which is the 
only information that is used.  But I haven't had a chance to send a patch 
that follows that strategy.  So if it is preferred to keep res, then that 
can be done.

julia