Re: [PATCH] pci: introduce an ioremap_pcibar(pdev, barnr) function

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On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 04:36:41PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> A common thing in many PCI drivers is to ioremap() an entire bar.
> This is a slightly fragile thing right now, needing both an address and a size,
> and many driver writers do.. various things there.
> 
> This patch introduces an ioremap_pcibar() function taking just a PCI device struct
> and the bar number as arguments, and figures this all out itself, in one place.
> In addition, we can add various sanity checks to this function (the patch already
> checks to make sure that the bar in question really is a MEM bar; few to no drivers
> do that sort of thing).

So we already have a pci_iomap() which takes a 'max' argument.  If you
make 'max' -1, don't you get this same behaviour?

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