Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] arch/*/io.h: remove ioremap_uc in some architectures

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Tue Feb 21 2023 - 05:03:32 EST


Hi Baoquan,

Thanks for your patch!

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 7:36 AM Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ioremap_uc() is only meaningful on old x86-32 systems with the PAT
> extension, and on ia64 with its slightly unconventional ioremap()
> behavior, everywhere else this is the same as ioremap() anyway.
>
> So here, remove the ioremap_uc() definition in architecutures other
> than x86 and ia64. These architectures all have asm-generic/io.h
> included and will have the default ioremap_uc() definition which
> returns NULL. If any ARCH really needs a specific ioremap_uc() for

Please make it very clear that this changes existing behavior.
At first, I had completely missed that.

And of course the documentation should be updated to reflect that.

> its own usage, one ioremap_uc() can be added in the ARH.

s/ARH/ARCH/

> arch/m68k/include/asm/kmap.h | 1 -

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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