Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753893AbbG0FMU (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2015 01:12:20 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:35835 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752193AbbG0FMT (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2015 01:12:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 07:12:16 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Dan Williams Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, "Kani, Toshimitsu" , Arnd Bergmann , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Russell King , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/25] arch: introduce memremap() Message-ID: <20150727051216.GA15836@lst.de> References: <20150725023649.8664.59145.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20150725023842.8664.97620.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20150726172527.GA29513@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 557 Lines: 12 On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:49:39AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > What's the point of having this MEMREMAP_CACHE alias? > > For developers that are used to seeing ioremap_cache()... Meh. We've got git logs that show clearly what replaced a previous API. Duplicate names for the same API are highly confusing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/