Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] cleanup IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE vs ioremap()

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Quoting Arnd:
>     I was thinking the opposite approach and basically removing all uses
>     of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE from the kernel. There are only a handful of
>     them.and we can probably replace them all with hardcoded
>     ioremap_cached() calls in the cases they are actually useful.
>
> All existing usages of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE call ioremap() instead of
> ioremap_nocache() if the resource is cacheable, however ioremap() is
> uncached by default.  Clearly none of the existing usages care about the
> cacheability, so let's clean that up before introducing generic
> ioremap_cache() support across architectures.
>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
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