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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
To: John Linn <John.Linn@xilinx.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, grant.likely@secretlab.ca,
	michal.simek@petalogix.com, john.williams@petalogix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uartlite: move from byte accesses to word accesses
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:53:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6jsl76e.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f45ae30-3c9f-4b92-90a1-fc6a2a91445b@SG2EHSMHS006.ehs.local> (John Linn's message of "Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:49:45 -0700")

>>>>> "John" == John Linn <John.Linn@xilinx.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> Why is it less desired?

 John> We are wanting to use our IP cores over a PCIe bus and it only
 John> allows 32 bit accesses.

Ok, that's valuable information for the commit messages.

 John> I understand.  Most of our customers are using a 32 bit bus so
 John> that this wouldn't be a problem for most people.

 John> We could do some kind of conditional compilation for the
 John> accesses, but it's certainly less desired.  We could make 32 bit
 John> the default and then allow a kernel config to change the access
 John> size.

Naah, the project where we needed 16bit access is _OLD_, and the
platform hasn't been ported from arch/ppc, so let's just move to 32bit
access.

If you send an updated patch with a more detailed commit message then
I'll ack it.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-20 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-20 16:45 [PATCH] uartlite: move from byte accesses to word accesses John Linn
2010-01-20 19:23 ` Peter Korsgaard
2010-01-20 21:49   ` John Linn
2010-01-20 22:53     ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2010-01-20 22:57       ` John Linn

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