Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:34:57 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/10] arch: unify ioremap prototypes and macro aliases |
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On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 08:18:00PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > Some archs define the first parameter to ioremap() as unsigned long, > while the balance define it as resource_size_t, similar confusion exists > for the type of the 'size' parameter. Unify on (resource_size_t, > unsigned long) to enable passing ioremap function pointers. Also, some > archs use function-like macros for defining ioremap aliases, but > asm-generic/io.h expects object-like macros, unify on the latter. > > Move all handling of ioremap aliasing (i.e. ioremap_wt => ioremap) to > include/linux/io.h. Add a check to lib/devres.c to warn at compile time > if an arch violates type expectations.
I don't think devres really has aything to do with this code.
> Kill ARCH_HAS_IOREMAP_WC and ARCH_HAS_IOREMAP_WT in favor of just > testing for ioremap_wc, and ioremap_wt being defined. This arrangement > allows drivers to know when ioremap_<foo> are being re-directed to plain > ioremap. A later patch uses this arrangement to implement support for > strict mappings. > > Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
I only ACKed this as a band-aid to get the pmem code in. Now that we got that in with a less invasive hack I don't see any reasons to do this over doing the proper common prototypes and per-arch runtime checks of flags variant.
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