linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] devres: use MACRO instead of function for devm

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Date:   Tue, 19 Dec 2017 18:52:27 +0800
From:   Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     <thomas.lendacky@....com>, <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        <bp@...e.de>, <tglx@...utronix.de>, <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] devres: use MACRO instead of function for devm_ioremap

Hi Greg,

On 2017/12/19 16:46, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 05:23:33PM +0800, Yisheng Xie wrote:
>> Default ioremap is ioremap_nocache, so devm_ioremap has the same function
>> with devm_ioremap_nocache, which may just be killed. However, there are
>> many places which use devm_ioremap_nocache, while many use devm_ioremap.
>>
>> This patch is to use MACRO for devm_ioremap, which will reduce the size of
>> devres.o from 206824 Bytes to 203768 Bytes.
> 
> Ok, the idea is good, but why not just get rid of the callers of
> devm_ioremap_nocache() instead and have them call devm_ioremap() if they
> really are the same thing?  No need to keep a macro around for the
> duplicate thing, just delete the one and things are much better.

Yeah, I thought someone may still want to use devm_ioremap_nocache().

I will take your suggestion in next version and kill devm_ioremap_nocache().

Thanks
Yisheng Xie
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
> .
>