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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 4/6] mm: ioremap: Add arch_ioremap/iounmap()
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On 2022/5/24 20:37, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:25 AM Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> wrote:
>> Add special hook for architecture to verify or setup addr, size
>> or prot when ioremap() or iounmap(), which will make the generic
>> ioremap more useful.
>>
>> arch_ioremap() return a pointer,
>> - IS_ERR means return an error
>> - NULL means continue to remap
>> - a non-NULL, non-IS_ERR pointer is directly returned
>> arch_iounmap() return a int value,
>> - 0 means continue to vunmap
>> - error code means skip vunmap and return directly
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
> I don't really like interfaces that mix error pointers and NULL pointer
> returns.
>
> Would it be possible to have a special error code other than NULL
> for the fallback case?
I don't find a good error code, maybe  ENOTSUPP, any better suggestion?
>
> arnd
>
> .

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