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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] mfd: replace IORESOURCE_IO by IORESOURCE_MEM
    On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:42:12PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
    > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Mark Brown

    > > This isn't much more appropriate - _MEM is for memory ranges so isn't
    > > directly relevant to register addresses either. If anything _IO is
    > > slightly nearer.

    > I use register resource to distinguish different components now. For
    > example, component driver
    > needs to access the registers in PMIC. These registers offsets are set
    > in 88pm860x-core.c.

    I understand this.

    > So I think that it may not be called _IO.

    Right, but _MEM isn't terribly relevant either. If anything _IO is a
    bit better as ioports are *somewhat* similar to registers.


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