linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 06/10] libnvdimm, pmem: push call to ioremap

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Message-ID: <20150811125130.GB3402@lst.de>
Date:	Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:51:30 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com,
	mcgrof@...e.com, hch@....de, linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/10] libnvdimm, pmem: push call to ioremap_cache
	out of line

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:38:23PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> In preparation for deprecating ioremap_cache() push its usage into arch
> code where it deleted in a later globabl conversion of ioremap_cache()
> to arch_memremap().

I don't really see the point of this patch.  Two patches later
we'll get rid arch_memremap_pmem anyway.

I'd rather fold this and the next two patches into a single one,
and keep the new arch_memremap_pmem_flags as a inline in io.h.
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