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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ioremap_cached()
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:17:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603302217.55435.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060330201435.GM13590@parisc-linux.org>

On Thursday 30 March 2006 22:14, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> I think you misunderstood.  The right interface to call, that should
> work everywhere, should be the simple, obvious one.  ioremap().  That
> effectively is what everyone gets anyway (since they test on x86).
> So change the *definition* of ioremap() to be uncached.  Then we can add
> ioremap_wc() and ioremap_cached() for these special purpose mappings.

That would break all the current users who do ioremap on memory
and want it cached.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-30 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-30 16:41 [PATCH] ioremap_cached() Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-30 18:27 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-30 19:34   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-30 19:50     ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-30 20:14       ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-30 20:17         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-03-30 20:21           ` Kumar Gala
2006-03-30 20:27             ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-31 11:20 ` Arjan van de Ven

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