Re: MMIO and gcc re-ordering issue

Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-05-30T09:22:32Z

On Fri, 30 May 2008, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> Maybe we need another interface that does not do byteswapping but
> provides stronger ordering guarantees?

The byte swapping depends on the device/bus.

So what happened to the old idea of putting the accessor function pointers
in the device/bus structure?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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