Re: [PATCH] Custom IORESOURCE Class
From: Kumar Gala (kumar.gala_at_freescale.com)
Date: 08/09/05
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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 23:23:23 -0500 To: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
On Aug 8, 2005, at 6:17 PM, Adam Belay wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:00:21AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:11:45AM -0700, Matthew Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>> Below is a patch that adds an additional resource class to the
>>>
> platform
>
>>> resource types. This is to support additional resources that need to
>>>
> be passed
>
>>> to drivers without overloading the existing specific types. In my
>>>
> case, I need
>
>>> to send clock information to the driver to enable power management.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Matthew Gilbert <mgilbert@mvista.com>
>>>
>>
>> Hm, you do realize that Pat's no longer the driver core maintainer?
>>
> :)
>
>>
>> Anyway, Russell and Adam, any objections to this patch?
>>
>
> I'm not sure if I agree with this patch. "struct resource" is used
> primarily for
> I/O resource assignment. Although I agree we may need to add new
> IORESOURCE types,
> I'm not sure if clock data belongs here. I don't think "start" and
> "end" would be
> useful for most platform data. Could you provide more information
> about
> this
> specific issue and resource type? Maybe we could create a new sysfs
> attribute?
I would also like to understand more about what the need is here. We
have clock data and such but use platform_data for it.
- kumar
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