The patch titled include/linux/ioport.h: new helper to define common struct resource constructs has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is include-linux-ioporth-new-helper-to-define-common-struct-resource-constructs.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: include/linux/ioport.h: new helper to define common struct resource constructs From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Resource definitions that just define start, end and flags = IORESOURCE_MEM or IORESOURCE_IRQ (with start=end) are quite common. So introduce a shortcut for them. For completeness add macros for IORESOURCE_DMA and IORESOURCE_IO, too and also make available a set of macros to specify named resources of all types which are less common. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/ioport.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff -puN include/linux/ioport.h~include-linux-ioporth-new-helper-to-define-common-struct-resource-constructs include/linux/ioport.h --- a/include/linux/ioport.h~include-linux-ioporth-new-helper-to-define-common-struct-resource-constructs +++ a/include/linux/ioport.h @@ -109,6 +109,36 @@ struct resource_list { /* PCI control bits. Shares IORESOURCE_BITS with above PCI ROM. */ #define IORESOURCE_PCI_FIXED (1<<4) /* Do not move resource */ + +/* helpers to define resources */ +#define DEFINE_RES_NAMED(_start, _size, _name, _flags) \ + { \ + .start = (_start), \ + .end = (_start) + (_size) - 1, \ + .name = (_name), \ + .flags = (_flags), \ + } + +#define DEFINE_RES_IO_NAMED(_start, _size, _name) \ + DEFINE_RES_NAMED((_start), (_size), (_name), IORESOURCE_IO) +#define DEFINE_RES_IO(_start, _size) \ + DEFINE_RES_IO_NAMED((_start), (_size), NULL) + +#define DEFINE_RES_MEM_NAMED(_start, _size, _name) \ + DEFINE_RES_NAMED((_start), (_size), (_name), IORESOURCE_MEM) +#define DEFINE_RES_MEM(_start, _size) \ + DEFINE_RES_MEM_NAMED((_start), (_size), NULL) + +#define DEFINE_RES_IRQ_NAMED(_irq, _name) \ + DEFINE_RES_NAMED((_irq), 1, (_name), IORESOURCE_IRQ) +#define DEFINE_RES_IRQ(_irq) \ + DEFINE_RES_IRQ_NAMED((_irq), NULL) + +#define DEFINE_RES_DMA_NAMED(_dma, _name) \ + DEFINE_RES_NAMED((_dma), 1, (_name), IORESOURCE_DMA) +#define DEFINE_RES_DMA(_dma) \ + DEFINE_RES_DMA_NAMED((_dma), NULL) + /* PC/ISA/whatever - the normal PC address spaces: IO and memory */ extern struct resource ioport_resource; extern struct resource iomem_resource; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch include-linux-ioporth-new-helper-to-define-common-struct-resource-constructs.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html