linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/21] asm-generic: don't provide ioremap for CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20191106182857.GA21062@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 19:28:57 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/21] asm-generic: don't provide ioremap for CONFIG_MMU

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 07:16:38PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > shouldn't they all just be that first one?  In other words, wouldn't it be
> > better to always provide the generic ioremap prototype and unify the ports
> > instead?
> 
> Agreed. But I'd go for the second one.

Eventually we should unify it and only have a single prototype.
But we have lots of implementations including inline functions, so
this will take a few more steps.