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

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On Friday 15 February 2013 06:57 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 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.)
>
It just waste of iospace and Tony insisted to have just single ioremap()
hence all this discussion

regards
Santosh