Re: [PATCH 0/9] drivers: add new variants of devm_platform_ioremap_resource()

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 04:48:36PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Bartosz,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:38 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The new devm_platform_ioremap_resource() helper has now been widely
> > adopted and used in many drivers. Users of nocache and write-combined
> > ioremap() variants could profit from the same code shrinkage. This
> > series provides two new versions of devm_platform_ioremap_resource()
> > and uses it in a few example drivers with the assumption that - just
> > like was the case previously - a coccinelle script will be developed
> > to ease the transition for others.
> 
> Please be aware that the number of ioremap() variants is being
> reduced, as some of them are redundant (e.g. ioremap() already creates
> an uncached mapping, so ioremap_nocache() is not needed).
> So less is better than more ;-)

Yes.  If I can get the ia64 and openrisc patch in I plan to send Linus
a scripted removal of ioremap_nocache after -rc1.  I already have a
local patch for current mainline as of about two weeks ago.