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Date:	Fri, 6 Sep 2013 17:14:49 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>
Cc:	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"nico@...aro.org" <nico@...aro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>,
	"linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] arm: add early_ioremap support

On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 10:19:18AM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -877,6 +878,10 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
> 
>         parse_early_param();
> 
> +#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_IOREMAP
> +       early_ioremap_init();
> +#endif

Better with a dummy early_ioremap_init() in the header when
!CONFIG_EARLY_IOREMAP to avoid the #ifdef here.

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/early_ioremap.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,271 @@
> +/*
> + * early_ioremap() support for ARM
> + *
> + * Based on existing support in arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c

At a very quick look, this looks really close to the x86 implementation.
Any reason why this cannot be made generic and avoid duplication?

-- 
Catalin
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