Re: ioremap() vs. ioremap_nocache()

David Mosberger (davidm@hpl.hp.com)
Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:08:45 -0700


>>>>> On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:51:45 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:

>> >>>>> On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:18:07 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox
>> <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
>>
>> Can you tell me what the answer is to this question?

>> When is a programmer supposed to use ioremap()
>> vs. ioremap_nocache().

Alan> You should never need ioremap_nocache for anything
Alan> non-ultraweird.

Then who added it and why?

--david
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