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VIDEO: Correct use of request_region/request_mem_region

VIDEO: Correct use of request_region/request_mem_region

request_region should be used with release_region, not request_mem_region.

Geert Uytterhoeven pointed out that in the case of drivers/video/gbefb.c,
the problem is actually the other way around; request_mem_region should be
used instead of request_region.

The semantic patch that finds/fixes this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r1@
expression start;
@@

request_region(start,...)

@b1@
expression r1.start;
@@

request_mem_region(start,...)

@depends on !b1@
expression r1.start;
expression E;
@@

- release_mem_region
+ release_region
  (start,E)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

diff --git a/drivers/video/gbefb.c b/drivers/video/gbefb.c
index 1a83709f961..f67db426837 100644
--- a/drivers/video/gbefb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/gbefb.c
@@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ static int __init gbefb_probe(struct platform_device *p_dev)
 	gbefb_setup(options);
 #endif
 
-	if (!request_region(GBE_BASE, sizeof(struct sgi_gbe), "GBE")) {
+	if (!request_mem_region(GBE_BASE, sizeof(struct sgi_gbe), "GBE")) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "gbefb: couldn't reserve mmio region\n");
 		ret = -EBUSY;
 		goto out_release_framebuffer;