On Sunday, September 28, 2008 4:36 pm Arjan van de Ven wrote: > The patch below introduces a pci_ioremap() function that should make it > easier for driver authors to do the right thing for the simple, common > case. > > There's also 18 patches that introduce users of this; to reduce lkml noise > I've only stuck them in a git tree at > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-pci_ioremap.g >it > (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-pci_ioremap.git; >a=summary) > > > From fef1dd836bc7dc07962a0ae4019af9efd373c76f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:34:52 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH 01/19] pci: introduce an pci_ioremap(pdev, barnr) function > > 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 pci_ioremap() 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). > > Hopefully with this type of API we get less chance of mistakes in drivers > with ioremap() operations. > > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Applied to my linux-next branch, thanks. I assume you'll have Linus pull the driver updates later? Thanks, Jesse -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
