Re: [PATCH 01/11] resource: Add System RAM resource type

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On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 15:23 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 01:04:32PM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote:
 :
> > I agree that we can add new interfaces with the type check.  This
> > 'type'
> > may need some clarification since it is an assigned type, which is
> > different from I/O resource type.  That is, "System RAM" is an I/O 
> > resource type (i.e. IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM), but "Crash kernel" is an 
> > assigned type to a particular range of System RAM.  A range may be 
> > associated with multiple names, so as multiple assigned types.  For 
> > lack of a better idea, I may call it 'assign_type'.  I am open for a
> > better name.
> 
> Or assigned_type or named_type or so...
> 
> I think we should avoid calling it "type" completely in order to avoid
> confusion with the IORESOURCE_* types and call it "desc" or so to mean
> description, sort, etc, because the name is also a description of the
> resource to a certain degree...

Agreed. I will use 'desc'.

> > OK, I will try to convert the existing callers with the new interfaces.
> 
> Either that or add the new interfaces, use them in your use case, add
> big fat comments explaining that people should use those from now on
> when searching by name and add a check to checkpatch to catch future
> mis-uses...

Sounds good.  I will look into it.

Thanks,
-Toshi

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