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

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Message-ID: <48150EB0.2000301@zytor.com>
Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:39:28 -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:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Seems like a sane plan...  last handful might be tough, though.

No doubt, although the vast majority of all call sites can probably be 
trivially changed to ioremap_nocache().

	-hpa
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