Re: [PATCH 1/5] devres: Move managed io function declarations into device.h

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On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:50:57PM +0100, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 09:49:03AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 10:15:08PM +0100, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> > > Moving managed io function declarations into device.h allows
> > > removing forward struct device and resource definitions from
> > > io(port).h
> > 
> > In the face of it, what is the issue with forward declarations of device
> > and resource structures? device.h is supposed to be about Linux device
> > model, not hardware. You would not want all devm_* functions to go into
> > device.h (clock, regulator, input, rtc, hwmon, etc, etc devm API),
> > right? Why would we want ioport there?
> 
> Allright, point taken. Then I would assume devm_ioremap_resource should
> be moved from device.h into io.h, to get some consistency, right?

Yes, I think that would be good.

> Any other comment (mainly to devm_ioremap_shared_resource) before v2?
> 
> Thank you,
> 	ladis

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry



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