linux-kernel - RFC: kill off ioremap

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Date:   Mon,  9 Dec 2019 14:58:20 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Paul Burton <paulburton@...nel.org>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: RFC: kill off ioremap_nocache

Hi all,

with the ioremap changes that did land in 5.5-rc1 ioremap_nocache is
now equal to ioremap for all architectures.  For most architectures
including the common one this has been the case for about 20 years,
but we had a few holdouts.

That means ioremap_nocache is entirely superflous now and can be
killed off.  This series has one big scripted patch to do just that
after a little prep patch to fix up the not entirely obvious mips
definition.

Let me know what you think and if this is something acceptable for
just after -rc1.