Re: [PATCH] sound: don't use the deprecated function check_region

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon,  8 Aug 2011 16:07:12 +0800,
stufever@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> From: Wang Shaoyan <wangshaoyan.pt@taobao.com>
> 
>   sound/oss/pss.c: In function 'configure_nonsound_components':
>   sound/oss/pss.c:676: warning: 'check_region' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/ioport.h:201)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Shaoyan <wangshaoyan.pt@taobao.com>
> ---
>  sound/oss/pss.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/oss/pss.c b/sound/oss/pss.c
> index 9b800ce..0fa26bd 100644
> --- a/sound/oss/pss.c
> +++ b/sound/oss/pss.c
> @@ -673,9 +673,10 @@ static void configure_nonsound_components(void)
>  
>  	if (pss_cdrom_port == -1) {	/* If cdrom port enablation wasn't requested */
>  		printk(KERN_INFO "PSS: CDROM port not enabled.\n");
> -	} else if (check_region(pss_cdrom_port, 2)) {
> +	} else if (!request_region(pss_cdrom_port, 2, "PSS CDROM")) {
>  		printk(KERN_ERR "PSS: CDROM I/O port conflict.\n");
>  	} else {
> +		release_region(pss_cdrom_port, 2);
>  		set_io_base(devc, CONF_CDROM, pss_cdrom_port);
>  		printk(KERN_INFO "PSS: CDROM I/O port set to 0x%x.\n", pss_cdrom_port);
>  	}

Well, this just hides the warning but doesn't fix the possible race,
which is the reason check_region() is marked as deprecated after all.

Instead of releasing the resource there, keep it and release in the
destructor properly like other normal resources.


thanks,

Takashi