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Date:   Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:44:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
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Subject: Re: drivers: Provide devm_platform_ioremap_resource_byname()
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On Fri, 14 Jun 2019, Markus Elfring wrote:

> >> I don't like adding new apis with no user.
> >
> > Perhaps Jack Ping will send it as a first patch of his series where he utilizes
> > this functionality. Would it be acceptable?
>
> The proposed function can get wider application in a reasonable time frame
> if a corresponding script for the semantic patch language (Coccinelle software)
> would perform an automatic source code conversion (for example)
> according to your change acceptance.
> How do you think about to support a bit more collateral software evolution?

Why don't you just do what is asked for?

julia