On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 08:18:17PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: >> In preparation for enabling memremap(), add support for strict mappings. >> strict_ioremap_<type>() returns NULL if the arch does not implement the >> mapping type, rather than falling back silently to ioremap(). > > Please don't introduce another large number of ioremap variants. > > I think we should go straight to the ioremap_flags variant, although > I wonder if we should even bother with ioremap_flags for this use > case, given that we really want memremap-like semantics for anything > that isn't plain ioremap (and maybe ioremap_nocache). > > Sorry or being the downer, but I really think we need to clean up this > mess deeply insted of trying to paper over it. No worries. I'll rework the series around the idea that memremap() is a replacement rather than a wrapper for ioremap_<type>(). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
