Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2018 17:13:57 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 03/24] drivers/block/z2ram: use ioremap_wt() instead of __ioremap(_PAGE_WRITETHRU) |
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Hi Bart,
CC debian-68k, linux-m68k
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 5:00 PM Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2018-10-09 at 13:51 +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > _PAGE_WRITETHRU is a target specific flag. Prefer generic functions. > > > > Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> > > Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> > > Hi Geert, > > All patches that have been applied to this driver since 2005 are API refactoring > patches. I haven't found any patches in the history of this driver that seem to > have been submitted by a user of this driver. Do you perhaps know whether anyone > is using this driver?
The z2ram is a very simple driver, used to configure (slower) Zorro II RAM as a swap device. So I'm not so surprised no one submitted functional patches.
I believe it's still being used. Probably it could be modified to use mtdram.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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