Re: RFC: move kernel/memremap.c to mm/

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:49 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> was there any really good reason to have memremap.c in kernel/ back
> when you started it?  It seems to be pretty much tried into the mm
> infrastructure, and I keep mistyping the path.  Would you mind a simple
> git-mv patch after -rc1 to move it to mm/ ?

No complaints from me. It ended up there because it was originally
just the common memremap implementation always built with
CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM.

Arguably we should have done this move right after commit 5981690ddb8f
("memremap: split devm_memremap_pages() and memremap()
infrastructure").