linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] [POWERPC] devres: Add devm_ioremap

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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:49:05 -0500
From:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	htejun@...il.com, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Emilian.Medve@...escale.com,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] [POWERPC] devres: Add devm_ioremap_flags()


On Apr 30, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 11:08 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> From: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@...escale.com>
>>
>> We provide an ioremap_flags so provide a coresphonding  
>> devm_ioremap_flags.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@...escale.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
>> ---
>>
>> Forgot to commit the actual implemtation in arch/powerpc/lib/devres.c
>>
>> Which tree should this go through, powerpc.git?
>
> Let's call it ioremap_prot instead please. I'm about to change
> ioremap_flags to ioremap_prot anyways. Keep the flags/prot argument
> unsigned long for now (it can be argued it should be a pgprot but that
> hasn't been sorted out completely).

No problem.  I've always wondered why ioremap_* aren't better  
specified by generic code.

- k

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