Re: [PATCH] fix ppc ioremap prototype

Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04T15:35:43Z

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Matt Porter wrote:
>
> My local tree has an ugly hack to remap_page_range() (and friends)
> so it uses a phys_addr_t and calls fixup_bigphys_addr() to allow
> use of unmodified PCI FB drivers. I'd like to get this working
> without hacks. :)

We could make a new remap_page_range() that takes the FPN (not the
address, the page "number") instead. But it would need a new name, not a
flag-day "change all users".

Linus