Filename case conflict Documentation/io-mapping.txt and Documentation/IO-mapping.txt

From: Kees Bakker
Date: Wed Jun 30 2010 - 17:09:23 EST


Hi,

Do we really want these two filenames as they are right now?
We have:
Documentation/IO-mapping.txt
Documentation/io-mapping.txt

kees@plankie:~/src/linux-2.6$ git blame Documentation/IO-mapping.txt|head
^1da177e (Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 1) [ NOTE: The virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() functions have been
5872fb94 (Randy Dunlap 2009-01-29 16:28:02 -0800 2) superseded by the functionality provided by the PCI DMA interface
5872fb94 (Randy Dunlap 2009-01-29 16:28:02 -0800 3) (see Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt). They continue
^1da177e (Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 4) to be documented below for historical purposes, but new code
^1da177e (Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 5) must not use them. --davidm 00/12/12 ]
^1da177e (Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 6)
^1da177e (Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 7) [ This is a mail message in response to a query on IO mapping, thus the
^1da177e (Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 8) strange format for a "document" ]
^1da177e (Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 9)
^1da177e (Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 10) The AHA-1542 is a bus-master device, and your patch makes the driver give the

kees@plankie:~/src/linux-2.6$ git blame Documentation/io-mapping.txt|head
9663f2e6 (Keith Packard 2008-10-30 19:38:18 -0700 1) The io_mapping functions in linux/io-mapping.h provide an abstraction for
9663f2e6 (Keith Packard 2008-10-30 19:38:18 -0700 2) efficiently mapping small regions of an I/O device to the CPU. The initial
9663f2e6 (Keith Packard 2008-10-30 19:38:18 -0700 3) usage is to support the large graphics aperture on 32-bit processors where
9663f2e6 (Keith Packard 2008-10-30 19:38:18 -0700 4) ioremap_wc cannot be used to statically map the entire aperture to the CPU
9663f2e6 (Keith Packard 2008-10-30 19:38:18 -0700 5) as it would consume too much of the kernel address space.
9663f2e6 (Keith Packard 2008-10-30 19:38:18 -0700 6)
9663f2e6 (Keith Packard 2008-10-30 19:38:18 -0700 7) A mapping object is created during driver initialization using
9663f2e6 (Keith Packard 2008-10-30 19:38:18 -0700 8)
9663f2e6 (Keith Packard 2008-10-30 19:38:18 -0700 9) struct io_mapping *io_mapping_create_wc(unsigned long base,
9663f2e6 (Keith Packard 2008-10-30 19:38:18 -0700 10) unsigned long size)

So the IO-mapping.txt was there first. Keith, can't we rename your
file? For example,

Documentation/io-mapping.txt => Documentation/io-mapping.h.txt
--
Kees

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