linux-kernel - Re: [patch] x86, voyager: fix ioremap

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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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