From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mout-xforward.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.5]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1LKeSz-0000Ls-Lw for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:53:26 +0000 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] ps3vram driver patches Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:53:05 +0100 References: <4963CDCA.4080802@am.sony.com> <200901071944.45680.arnd@arndb.de> <49650128.8020200@am.sony.com> In-Reply-To: <49650128.8020200@am.sony.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901072053.06037.arnd@arndb.de> Cc: David Woodhouse , Geoff Levand , Jim Paris , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , Vivien Chappelier , cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Geoff Levand wrote: > Geert and I were discussing actually removing the direct write to the XDR > memory, and so the need for that ioremap, as the mapping is just used in > ps3vram_erase(), which seems could be removed. Ah, I see. I also forgot to mention that the ioremap_flags change should only be done for actual memory regions, but *not* for memory mapped I/O registers. > I want to get it converted to a block device, and I will work towards > that, but it will take some time. =A0As it is, it is very useful for typi= cal > systems that are running full desktops like gmome or KDE and do a lot of > swapping. =A0Many of the distros now use it, and users want it. Yes, fine by me. Arnd <><