Re: [PATCH 1/4] Create generic early_ioremap() support

From: Mark Salter
Date: Tue Dec 17 2013 - 13:45:53 EST


On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 09:48 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On 11/27/13 at 09:44pm, Mark Salter wrote:
> > This patch copies generic bits of x86 early_ioremap() support
> > into a library for potential use by other architectures.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> > include/asm-generic/early_ioremap.h | 40 ++++++
> > lib/Kconfig | 3 +
> > lib/Makefile | 1 +
> > lib/early_ioremap.c | 243
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> I do not understand why these should go to lib/, I feel it's slightly better
> move them to mm/
>
> ditto about lib/ioremap.c, ...
>

I hadn't really thought about it. Putting these things in mm doesn't
sound unreasonable, but lib seems to have become the place for a lot
generic code which could also belong in mm, net, etc.


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