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SubjectRe: [patch] x86, voyager: fix ioremap_nocache()
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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:52:02 -0700

> Arguably, the right thing is to not even have ioremap() anymore, just
> ioremap_{cache,nocache,wc} and consider any unconverted ioremap() as a
> flag to audit that particular piece of code.
>
> I don't think that can be done "instantly", though, so defaulting
> ioremap() to uncached (as it apparently has been on other arches
> already?) is the conservative option in the meantime.

I think this is a reasonable course of action.

That leaves one of Jeff's concerns, what to do with pci_iomap(). That
was designed to give mappings with caching enabled, and as a result we
probably should make it behave that way.


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