Re: serial driver cleanups v2
From: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <hidden>
Date: 2019-03-15 10:36:43
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On 15.03.19 10:12, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
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Part II will be about moving the mmio range from mapbase and mapsize (which are used quite inconsistently) to a struct resource and using helpers for that. But this one isn't finished yet. (if somebody likes to have a look at it, I can send it, too)Let's do that way you are preparing a branch somewhere and anounce here as an RFC, since this was neither tested nor correct.
Okay, here it is: I. https://github.com/metux/linux/tree/submit/serial-clean-v3 --> general cleanups, as basis for II II. https://github.com/metux/linux/tree/wip/serial-res --> moving towards using struct resource consistently III. https://github.com/metux/linux/tree/hack/serial --> the final steps, which are yet completely broken (more a notepad for things still to do :o) The actual goal is generalizing the whole iomem handling, so individual usually just need to call some helpers that do most of the things. Finally, I also wanted to have all io region information consolidated in struct resource. Meanwhile I've learned that I probably was a bit too eager w/ that. Guess I'll have to rethink my strategy.
And selling point for many of them is not true: it doesn't make any difference in the size in code, but increases a time to run (devm_ioremap_resource() does more than plain devm_iomap() call).
Okay, just seen it. Does the the runtime overhead cause any problems ? --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering info@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287