Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: provide devm_platform_ioremap_resource()

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 4:25 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> There are currently 1200+ instances of using platform_get_resource()
> and devm_ioremap_resource() together in the kernel tree.
>
> This patch wraps these two calls in a single helper. Thanks to that
> we don't have to declare a local variable for struct resource * and can
> omit the redundant argument for resource type. We also have one
> function call less.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

This makes a lot of sense. I think Andy can confirm the value, he
knows a lot about good helpers.

I'd need Greg's ACK on this before merging through GPIO.

Can we make a script or coccinelle thing to fix them all when this
is applied?

Yours,
Linus Walleij