Re: [PATCH] csky: Fixup ioremap function losing

[Guo Ren]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 2:21 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 10:20:18AM +0800, Guo Ren wrote:
> > > > Also change flag VM_ALLOC to VM_IOREMAP in get_vm_area_caller.
> > >
> > > Looks generally fine, but two comments:
> > >
> > >  - do you have a need for ioremap_cache?  We are generally try to
> > >    phase it out in favour of memremap, and it is generally only used
> > >    by arch specific code.
> > Yes, some drivers of our customers use ioremap_cache to map phy_addr
> > which isn't belong to system memory.
>
> Which driver?  We should move it over to memremap instead of adding
> a new ioremap_cache.
The driver hasn't been upstreamed. OK, just remove ioremap_cache and
seems it's not a big problem.

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Best Regards
 Guo Ren

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