linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/26] m68k: simplify ioremap

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Message-ID: <20190819091846.GA27890@lst.de>
Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:18:46 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/26] m68k: simplify ioremap_nocache

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:56:02AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> BTW, shouldn't we get rid of the sole user of ioremap_uc(), too?
> Seems to make a difference on x86 only, where it is "strongly uncached"
> (whatever that may mean ;-)

Yes, we probably should.  However that actually seems worth a discussion
so I wanted to defer it until after this already huge series.

Another thing we can do after this series is to kill of ioremap_nocache.