Re: 2.6.19-rc <-> ThinkPads

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I wonder if the order matters more, though. Andi? We _used_ to write the 
> high word first, and I think the order matters. The low word contains the 
> enable bit, for example, so when enabling an interrupt, you should write 
> the low word last, when you disable it you should write the low word 
> first.
> 
Although you can argue that anyone coding here should be a guru, in 
practice things this subtle really would be helped by a comment in the 
initial code. I don't agree that "if it was hard to write it should be 
hard to understand." Clearly several competent people missed this 
dependency, or the patch would not have gone in.

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