On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 30 May 2015, Dan Williams wrote:
>> @@ -154,7 +148,7 @@ void __iomem *devm_ioremap_resource(struct device *dev, 
>> struct resource *res)
>>         }
>>
>>         if (res->flags & IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE)
>> -               dest_ptr = devm_ioremap(dev, res->start, size);
>> +               dest_ptr = devm_ioremap_cache(dev, res->start, size);
>>         else
>>                 dest_ptr = devm_ioremap_nocache(dev, res->start, size);
>
> I think the existing uses of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE are mostly bugs, so changing
> the behavior here may cause more problems than it solves.
>

Ok, but that effectively makes devm_ioremap_resource() unusable for
the cached case.  How about introducing devm_ioremap_cache_resource(),
and cleaning up devm_ioremap_resource() to stop pretending that it is
honoring the memory type of the resource?
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