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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Tom Appermont <tea@sonycom.com>
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Subject: Re: flush_cache_range
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:32:58AM +0200, Tom Appermont wrote:

> Can someone explain me why start and end parameters are ignored in
> r4k_flush_cache_range_d32i32() and cache range flushing operations
> for other platforms?

Afair the reason was that most invokations cover a range that is larger than
the entire cache anyway so our implementation in practice doesn't cause
any harm.

  Ralf