[RFC/NOT FOR MERGING 2/3] serial: omap: remove hwmod dependency

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Feb 15 08:27:26 EST 2013


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 06:56:47PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> Whats your view on use of arch_ioremap_caller() hook ? This can allow
> us to avoid the dual ioremap() issue discussed here if the hook
> maintains the list of mapped ios.
>
> I was even thinking of having such intelligence within the core
> ioremap code but thought that might be too invasive.

Why do you even need it?  There's no problem with ioremapping the same
space multiple times (you end up with multiple mappings but that
shouldn't be a problem, except for the additional space used.)



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