Re: [PATCH v3 00/27] kill devm_ioremap_nocache

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 06:55:25PM +0800, Yisheng Xie wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> When I tried to use devm_ioremap function and review related code, I found
> devm_ioremap and devm_ioremap_nocache is almost the same with each other,
> except one use ioremap while the other use ioremap_nocache.

For all arches?  Really?  Look at MIPS, and x86, they have different
functions.

> While ioremap's
> default function is ioremap_nocache, so devm_ioremap_nocache also have the
> same function with devm_ioremap, which can just be killed to reduce the size
> of devres.o(from 20304 bytes to 18992 bytes in my compile environment).
> 
> I have posted two versions, which use macro instead of function for
> devm_ioremap_nocache[1] or devm_ioremap[2]. And Greg suggest me to kill
> devm_ioremap_nocache for no need to keep a macro around for the duplicate
> thing. So here comes v3 and please help to review.

I don't think this can be done, what am I missing?  These functions are
not identical, sorry for missing that before.

thanks,

greg k-h
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