On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 04:26:03PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > Oh, because all we have at this point is ioremap_cache() which > silently falls back. It's not until the introduction of > arch_memremp() where we update the arch code to break that behavior.
Ok, makes sense. Might be worth to document in the changelog. > That said, I think it may be beneficial to allow a fallback if the > user cares. So maybe memremap() can call plain ioremap() if > MEMREMAP_STRICT is not set and none of the other mapping types are > satisfied. Is there a real use case for it? Fallback APIs always seem confusing and it might make more sense to do this in the caller(s) that actually need it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
