linux_dsm_epyc7002/include
Thierry Reding 75096579c3 lib: devres: Introduce devm_ioremap_resource()
The devm_request_and_ioremap() function is very useful and helps avoid a
whole lot of boilerplate. However, one issue that keeps popping up is
its lack of a specific error code to determine which of the steps that
it performs failed. Furthermore, while the function gives an example and
suggests what error code to return on failure, a wide variety of error
codes are used throughout the tree.

In an attempt to fix these problems, this patch adds a new function that
drivers can transition to. The devm_ioremap_resource() returns a pointer
to the remapped I/O memory on success or an ERR_PTR() encoded error code
on failure. Callers can check for failure using IS_ERR() and determine
its cause by extracting the error code using PTR_ERR().

devm_request_and_ioremap() is implemented as a wrapper around the new
API and return NULL on failure as before. This ensures that backwards
compatibility is maintained until all users have been converted to the
new API, at which point the old devm_request_and_ioremap() function
should be removed.

A semantic patch is included which can be used to convert from the old
devm_request_and_ioremap() API to the new devm_ioremap_resource() API.
Some non-trivial cases may require manual intervention, though.

Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-22 09:41:43 -08:00
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acpi PCI changes for the v3.8 merge window: 2012-12-13 12:14:47 -08:00
asm-generic mm: limit mmu_gather batching to fix soft lockups on !CONFIG_PREEMPT 2013-01-04 16:11:46 -08:00
clocksource
crypto crypto: cast5/cast6 - move lookup tables to shared module 2012-12-06 17:16:26 +08:00
drm Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel 2013-01-11 07:52:48 +10:00
keys
linux lib: devres: Introduce devm_ioremap_resource() 2013-01-22 09:41:43 -08:00
math-emu
media
memory
misc
net Merge branch 'master' of git://1984.lsi.us.es/nf 2012-12-28 14:28:17 -08:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma UAPI: Remove empty Kbuild files 2013-01-02 17:36:10 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi SCSI misc on 20121212 2012-12-13 19:20:31 -08:00
sound Merge remote-tracking branch 'asoc/fix/cs4271' into tmp 2013-01-10 12:22:11 +00:00
target target: Introduce TCM_NO_SENSE 2013-01-10 20:06:08 -08:00
trace Various bug fixes for ext4. Perhaps the most serious bug fixed is one 2013-01-02 09:57:34 -08:00
uapi linux/audit.h: move ptrace.h include to kernel header 2013-01-11 14:54:56 -08:00
video Merge branch 'omap-for-v3.8/fixes-for-merge-window' into omap-for-v3.8/fixes-for-merge-window-v2 2012-12-16 11:28:10 -08:00
xen Bugfixes: 2012-12-18 12:26:54 -08:00
Kbuild UAPI: Remove empty Kbuild files 2013-01-02 17:36:10 -08:00