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

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Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:58:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hpa@...or.com
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, 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()

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:52:02 -0700

> Arguably, the right thing is to not even have ioremap() anymore, just 
> ioremap_{cache,nocache,wc} and consider any unconverted ioremap() as a 
> flag to audit that particular piece of code.
> 
> I don't think that can be done "instantly", though, so defaulting 
> ioremap() to uncached (as it apparently has been on other arches 
> already?) is the conservative option in the meantime.

I think this is a reasonable course of action.

That leaves one of Jeff's concerns, what to do with pci_iomap().  That
was designed to give mappings with caching enabled, and as a result we
probably should make it behave that way.
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