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Message-ID: <481504BA.4090402@zytor.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:56:58 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
CC: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, mingo@...e.hu,
tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch] x86, voyager: fix ioremap_nocache()
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Understood.
>
> I guess I am more annoyed that this stealth semantics change appears to
> have broken everything that depends on pci_iomap(), including 90%+ of
> all libata drivers, unless I am missing something.
>
> That one piece of code (pci_iomap) was correct under the old semantics,
> on x86 and elsewhere. It's tested and working nicely, and depended upon
> by many drivers.
>
That one piece of code has had no effective change. Under both the old
and the new code, both branches functionally because ioremap_nocache(),
in one case because of MTRR and in one case because of PAT.
-hpa
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