From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1773C31E47 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:44:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11A021848 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:44:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726425AbfFOIod (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:44:33 -0400 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]:49642 "EHLO mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725825AbfFOIoc (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:44:32 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.63,377,1557180000"; d="scan'208";a="387534746" Received: from abo-12-105-68.mrs.modulonet.fr (HELO hadrien) ([85.68.105.12]) by mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 15 Jun 2019 10:44:31 +0200 Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:44:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Julia Lawall X-X-Sender: jll@hadrien To: Markus Elfring cc: Andy Shevchenko , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jack Ping CHNG , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Himanshu Jha , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Bartosz Golaszewski , Enrico Weigelt , Linus Walleij Subject: Re: drivers: Provide devm_platform_ioremap_resource_byname() In-Reply-To: <48877575-90b9-3db5-7a25-53cf3817b2ee@web.de> Message-ID: References: <39e46643-d799-94b7-4aa5-d6d99d738f99@web.de> <20190614133840.GN9224@smile.fi.intel.com> <20190614141004.GC7234@kroah.com> <20190614144706.GO9224@smile.fi.intel.com> <48877575-90b9-3db5-7a25-53cf3817b2ee@web.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 14 Jun 2019, Markus Elfring wrote: > >> I don't like adding new apis with no user. > > > > Perhaps Jack Ping will send it as a first patch of his series where he utilizes > > this functionality. Would it be acceptable? > > The proposed function can get wider application in a reasonable time frame > if a corresponding script for the semantic patch language (Coccinelle software) > would perform an automatic source code conversion (for example) > according to your change acceptance. > How do you think about to support a bit more collateral software evolution? Why don't you just do what is asked for? julia