Re: [patch -mm] Make check_signature() depend on CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM

> > check_signature is relevant for anything with MMIO space (for example you
> > can legitimately want to check_signature a MAC68K Nubus ROM).
> 
> A generic check_signature() is a little difficult if we have separate io 
> functions for every bus.

Does M68K implement iomap() and pci_iomap and friends yet ?
check_signature has fairly few users so moving to be iomap based wouldn't
be hard if that was a problem. The other option would seem to be
bus->check_signature() ?

Alan
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