[PATCH v2 1/5] mm: create generic early_ioremap() support

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jan 7 18:11:48 EST 2014


On 01/06/2014 06:35 PM, Mark Salter wrote:
> 
> There is one difference from the existing x86 implementation which
> should be noted. The generic early_memremap() function does not return
> an __iomem pointer and a new early_memunmap() function has been added
> to act as a wrapper for early_iounmap() but with a non __iomem pointer
> passed in. This is in line with the first patch of this series:
> 

This makes a lot of sense.  However, I would suggest that we preface the
patch series with a single patch changing the signature for the existing
x86 function, that way this change becomes bisectable.

	-hpa





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