Re: ioremap of PCI resources

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On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:16:46AM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:34 PM, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> >
> > Question, when doing an ioremap() of a PCI resource which is more correct?
> >
> >	iobase = pci_resource_start(pcidev, bar);
> >	len = pci_resource_len(pcidev, bar);
> >	mmio = ioremap(iobase, len);
> >
> > or
> >
> >	mmio = pci_ioremap_bar(pcidev, bar);
> >
> > pci_ioremap_bar() does some extra sanity checking to make sure the bar
> > is actually a memory resource and then does an ioremap_nocache().
> >
> > If the ioremap() is in order to talk to the registers on the PCI device wouldn't
> > the pci_ioremap_bar() be more correct?
> 
> Greg / Ian / Dan,
> 
> Do you have any ideas/opinions on the question above?

It's been so long since I used to know this, I have forgotten, sorry.
Try asking on the linux-pci mailing list instead.

greg k-h
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