[RFC][PATCH 1/2] uio: allow drivers to override the pgprot for mmap

[Kumar Gala]

On Oct 29, 2011, at 1:38 AM, Greg KH wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:48:12PM +0200, Hans J. Koch wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:50:29AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> For some devices, the default behavior of pgprot_noncached() is not
>>> appropriate for all of its mappable regions. This provides a means for
>>> the kernel side of the UIO driver to override the flags without having
>>> to implement its own full mmap callback.
>> 
>> Thanks for also providing an example driver showing the use of this.
>> You should also post this driver in a mainline-ready version, I'm a bit
>> uncomfortable with adding a new function pointer without having any users.
> 
> I'm more than "uncomfortable", I'll refuse to take any such patch unless
> there is a in-kernel user, otherwise it makes no sense to add the
> pointer at all.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

I'm in agreement with this view.  I wanted to post this to make sure the direction we took was ok so when the upstream driver is posted this patch / change isn't a concern.

- k