Re: [PATCH 1/4] Create generic early_ioremap() support

[Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 09:48 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On 11/27/13 at 09:44pm, Mark Salter wrote:
> > This patch copies generic bits of x86 early_ioremap() support
> > into a library for potential use by other architectures.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
> > CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
> > ---
> >  include/asm-generic/early_ioremap.h |  40 ++++++
> >  lib/Kconfig                         |   3 +
> >  lib/Makefile                        |   1 +
> >  lib/early_ioremap.c                 | 243
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> I do not understand why these should go to lib/, I feel it's slightly better
> move them to mm/
> 
> ditto about lib/ioremap.c, ...
> 

I hadn't really thought about it. Putting these things in mm doesn't
sound unreasonable, but lib seems to have become the place for a lot
generic code which could also belong in mm, net, etc.