linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] UIO: only call pgprot

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Message-ID: <20081105163334.GA8473@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:33:34 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UIO: only call pgprot_noncached if defined

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:36:11PM +0100, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> There seem to be archs that cannot easily implement a sensible
> pgprot_noncached() function, so we should merge this patch. UIO doesn't
> compile on these archs right now.

No, we should fix those arches to have that function at least NULLed
out.  Isn't there only one, Blackfin?  Putting #ifdefs in .c files is
not something we really want to do if at all possible.

thanks,

greg k-h
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