From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 163mwc-0005RW-00 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:26:18 +0000 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: To: Bjorn Wesen Cc: joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Cache mappings and invalidate Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:35:42 +0000 Message-ID: <16717.1005694542@redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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