Re: Enhancing semantics with memremap() - aliasing with memremap()

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 07:25:14PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:58:28AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 04:36:42PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > Is it a good time for that now? I would hope identifying proper
> > > aliasing uses for memremap() might be a bit easier now than for
> > > ioremap() given its not used as widely. It may be an easier target to
> > > also write some grammar rules for it as well.
> > 
> > So you want an explicit opt-in flag to allow aliasing?  Sounds fine to
> > me.
>   
> Yup! Can the default then safely already be no-aliasing then?

Or if aliasing is truly not needed as often a different API, this
maybe useful later if we pick up again module namespace stuff.

  Luis