From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Bjorn Wesen <bjorn.wesen@axis.com>
Cc: joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Cache mappings and invalidate
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:35:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16717.1005694542@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111140207080.11644-100000@godzilla.axis.se>
bjorn.wesen@axis.com said:
> So what you really want, is to rename those cache flushes in the mm
> code into a name saying what they try to do, let some archs implement
> that as a cache flush if needed, and reserve the real cache flush code
> into a function that you need to implement (and use that in MTD
> perhaps).
> You _dont_ want to implement the flush_cache_* functions that exist
> right now on all architectures, not the way they are used.
Agreed. But Linus didn't want to fix the silly names. He seems to like them.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-13 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-13 15:53 Fwd: Cache mappings and invalidate Joakim Tjernlund
2001-11-13 16:08 ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-13 17:05 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2001-11-13 17:09 ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-14 1:15 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-11-13 23:35 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-11-26 8:08 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2001-11-27 11:07 ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-27 12:58 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2001-12-01 9:36 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-03 10:24 ` Joakim Tjernlund
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