[PATCH 01/79] staging: comedi: drivers: introduce comedi_request_region()

[Ian Abbott]

On 2013-04-10 00:05, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> Introduce a helper function to handle the request_region() for legacy
> comedi drivers.
>
> As pointed out by Ian Abbott, legacy devices are configured manually
> with the "comedi_config" program. The error messages are useful
> diagnostics when trying to attach to these boards.
>
> Providing a helper function allows consolidating the error messages
> in the drivers and providing a consistent format for the errors.
>
> This helper also sets the dev->iobase automatically for the driver
> if the request_region() is successful.

I wouldn't have set dev->iobase automatically, just in case some driver 
wants to request two regions, for example das16.c (and pcl818.c before 
you removed the unused DMA code).

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