From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 07:12:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v2 08/25] arch: introduce memremap() In-Reply-To: References: <20150725023649.8664.59145.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20150725023842.8664.97620.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20150726172527.GA29513@lst.de> Message-ID: <20150727051216.GA15836@lst.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:49:39AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > What's the point of having this MEMREMAP_CACHE alias? > > For developers that are used to seeing ioremap_cache()... Meh. We've got git logs that show clearly what replaced a previous API. Duplicate names for the same API are highly confusing.