Re: [patch 09/11] PAT x86: Add ioremap_wc support

[Andi Kleen]

venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> Index: linux-2.6.git/include/asm-generic/iomap.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.git.orig/include/asm-generic/iomap.h	2008-01-08 03:31:37.000000000 -0800
> +++ linux-2.6.git/include/asm-generic/iomap.h	2008-01-08 05:15:56.000000000 -0800
> @@ -65,4 +65,8 @@
>  extern void __iomem *pci_iomap(struct pci_dev *dev, int bar, unsigned long max);
>  extern void pci_iounmap(struct pci_dev *dev, void __iomem *);
>  
> +#ifndef ioremap_wc
> +#define ioremap_wc ioremap_nocache
> +#endif

I don't think that's a good idea. Drivers should be able to detect this somehow.
Handling UC mappings as WC will probably give very poor results.

-Andi
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