Re: [PATCH 1/3] PNP cleanups - Make use of pnp_{port,mem,irq,dma}_{start,end,flags} macros wherever possible

[Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>]

On 20-11-07 10:51, Thomas Renninger wrote:

> Make use of pnp_{port,mem,irq,dma}_{start,end,flags} macros wherever possible
>
> The macros to access the resource table in pnp sublayer was not used
> consequently.
> This patch makes use of these macros instead of accessing the resource
> arrays directly.
>
> For dma and irq also pnp_{dma,irq}_{start,end} macros have been introduced
> to unify the access to the different resource types.
>
> The pnp_{irq,dma} macros has now the same functionality than the:
> pnp_{irq,dma}_start macros. This will be cleaned up by the next patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>

Earlier comments (in private mail):

> > -                dev->res.port_resource[nport].start =
> > +                pnp_port_start(dev, nport) =
> >                      simple_strtoul(buf, &buf, 0);
> > If I'm not mistaken, there's a standing fatwa on macros as lvalues.
> > Andrew?
>
> Andrew Morton wrote: 
>
> Well, it's a pretty nasty thing to do, IMO.  But given that we've already
> gone and done it I suppose the change is OK from a consistency POV.

Otherwise acked as identity transformation.

Acked-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>

Rene.

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