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From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:20:58 +0200
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Subject: Re: serial driver cleanups v2
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:12 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:40 AM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
> <info@metux.net> wrote:
>
> > here's v2 of my serial cleanups queue - part I:
> >
> > essentially using helpers to code more compact and switching to
> > devm_*() functions for mmio management.
> >
> > 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.
> 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).

And one more thing, perhaps you can run existing and / or contribute
to coccinelle since this all scriptable and maintainers can decide if
this or that coccinelle script is useful.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko