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    SubjectRe: Enhancing semantics with memremap() - aliasing with memremap()
    On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 07:25:14PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
    > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:58:28AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 04:36:42PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
    > > > Is it a good time for that now? I would hope identifying proper
    > > > aliasing uses for memremap() might be a bit easier now than for
    > > > ioremap() given its not used as widely. It may be an easier target to
    > > > also write some grammar rules for it as well.
    > >
    > > So you want an explicit opt-in flag to allow aliasing? Sounds fine to
    > > me.
    >
    > Yup! Can the default then safely already be no-aliasing then?

    Or if aliasing is truly not needed as often a different API, this
    maybe useful later if we pick up again module namespace stuff.

    Luis

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