[alsa-devel] [PATCH 6/7] ASoC: S3C64XX: Pass I2S base address from platform data

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 08:14:24PM +0900, jassi brar wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Mark Brown

> >> +     if (!request_mem_region(res->start, resource_size(res),
> >> +                                                     "s3c64xx-i2s")) {
> >> +             dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Unable to request SFR region\n");
> >> +             return -EBUSY;
> >> +     }
> >> +

> > This feels like it should be in the patch that requested the resource
> > rather than here.  Probably ought to have a version that does the
> > request in 2.6.33 too if we can...

> that patch is only for setting DMA channel and dst addresses, so we
> request MEM resource there.

I'm not sure I follow?  In any case the real issue here is that looking
at this change and it's hard to see how it's immediately related to the
subject of the patch; it's not about how the data is passed and somewhat
distant from the code which does do the passing.

> > A comment explaining why we're doing the subtraction wouldn't hurt; the
> > code is OK.

> its just that i didn't want to reorder the code and MEM resource was requested
> into a temporary variable 'res' not immediately before this call. At this point
> res->start should do too though.

Yes, I saw - all I'm saying is that putting a note in the code