Re: [PATCH] fix ppc ioremap prototype

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Matt Porter wrote:
> 
> My local tree has an ugly hack to remap_page_range() (and friends)
> so it uses a phys_addr_t and calls fixup_bigphys_addr() to allow
> use of unmodified PCI FB drivers.  I'd like to get this working
> without hacks. :)

We could make a new remap_page_range() that takes the FPN (not the 
address, the page "number") instead. But it would need a new name, not a 
flag-day "change all users".

		Linus

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