linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] arch: unify ioremap prototypes and macro aliases

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Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:14:12 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] arch: unify ioremap prototypes and macro aliases

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 05:19:18PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> Some archs define the first parameter to ioremap() as unsigned long,
> while the balance define it as resource_size_t.  Unify on
> resource_size_t to enable passing ioremap function pointers.  Also, some
> archs use function-like macros for defining ioremap aliases, but
> asm-generic/iomap.h expects object-like macros, unify on the latter.

Not urgent:  but maybe this is a big hint that we should not define
the prototypes on a per-architecture basis but in a common header
file.

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