ARM's multiply-mapped memory mess

Posted Oct 17, 2010 13:04 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: ARM's multiply-mapped memory mess by jzbiciak
Parent article: ARM's multiply-mapped memory mess

> gets() is still in the C language,

... whereas ioremap() is a Linux internal.

> despite it being next to impossible to use safely.

... whereas using ioremap() safely is not a problem.

> Removing it is an API/ABI change.

... whereas no one suggests removing ioremap().

> In some ways, the situation with ARM's memory remapping sounds similar

Not really.