linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc1

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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:39:11 +0100
From:	Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@...-lyon.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc1

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  - Lots of cleanups from the x86 merge (making more and more use of common 
>    files), but also the big page attribute stuff is in and caused a fair 
>    amount of churn, and while most of the issues should have been very 
>    obvious and all got fixed, this is definitely one of those things that 
>    we want a lot of very wide testing of to make sure nothing regressed.
>   

Now that __ioremap isn't available anymore, is there anything in the new
pageattr stuff to replace a manual __ioremap with __PAGE_PCD or
__PAGE_PSE? or do we have to wait for 2.6.26 to bring PAT support? I
don't see any new function accepting random page attributes as __ioremap
did.

thanks,
Brice

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