[RFT PATCH v3 10/27] docs: driver-api: device-io: Document ioremap() variants & access funcs

Hector Martin marcan at marcan.st
Tue Mar 9 20:29:52 GMT 2021


On 06/03/2021 00.51, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 4:09 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:25 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 10:40 PM Hector Martin <marcan at marcan.st> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This documents the newly introduced ioremap_np() along with all the
>>>> other common ioremap() variants, and some higher-level abstractions
>>>> available.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan at marcan.st>
>>>
>>> I like this, I just want one change:
>>>
>>> Put the common ioremap() on top in all paragraphs, so the norm
>>> comes before the exceptions.
>>>
>>> I.e. it is weird to mention ioremap_np() before mentioning ioremap().
>>
>> +1 here. That is what I have stumbled upon reading carefully.
> 
> In that case, the order should probably be:
> 
> ioremap
> ioremap_wc
> ioremap_wt
> ioremap_np
> ioremap_uc
> ioremap_cache
> 
> Going from most common to least common, rather than going from
> strongest to weakest.

Yeah, I was dwelling on the issue of ioremap_np being first when I wrote 
that... this alternative works for me, I'll sort it like this then. 
It'll just need some re-wording to make it all flow properly.

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