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       From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
    Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 00:42:04 +0100

    But x86 isn't particularly interesting - it'd be useful to have a
    flush_dcache_range() which actually works across other architectures anyway.

    The memory technology device case is weird, give it a solution
    such as "asm/memdev.h".

    > Regardless, the purpose of the cachetlb.txt interfaces is for the
    > generic VM subsystem of the kernel. Nothing more.

    So they should probably have less misleading names, perchance including the
    letter 'v' and the letter 'm' somewhere? And they should _certainly_ have
    less misleading documentation. :)

    Why? find_get_page says nothing about "page cache", but people
    understand that is what it is used for.

    The documention should be more specific, thats all.

    Franks a lot,
    David S. Miller
    davem@redhat.com
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