From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/4] asm-generic: io: remove {read,write} string functions
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:29:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201210261329.03386.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350488704-3711-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>
On Wednesday 17 October 2012, Will Deacon wrote:
> The {read,write}s{b,w,l} functions are not defined across all
> architectures and therefore shouldn't be used by portable drivers. We
> should encourage driver writers to use the io{read,write}{8,16,32}_rep
> functions instead.
>
> This patch removes the {read,write} string functions for the generic IO
> header as they have no place in a new architecture port.
>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Cc: Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
What should we do with the series? I can take them through the asm-generic
tree if you like, or we can let Catalin take them through the arm64 tree.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-26 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-17 15:45 [RESEND PATCH 0/4] Fix endianness of generic I/O accessors Will Deacon
2012-10-17 15:45 ` Will Deacon
2012-10-17 15:45 ` [RESEND PATCH 1/4] asm-generic: io: remove {read,write} string functions Will Deacon
2012-10-17 15:45 ` Will Deacon
2012-10-26 13:29 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2012-10-26 13:38 ` Will Deacon
2012-10-26 13:38 ` Will Deacon
2012-10-17 15:45 ` [RESEND PATCH 2/4] asm-generic: io: don't perform swab during {in,out} " Will Deacon
2012-10-17 15:45 ` Will Deacon
2012-10-17 19:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-10-18 0:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-18 5:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-10-19 12:53 ` Will Deacon
2012-10-23 1:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-23 1:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-28 9:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-10-28 20:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-18 0:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-17 15:45 ` [RESEND PATCH 3/4] mmc: mmci: use io{read,write}*_rep accessors instead of " Will Deacon
2012-10-17 15:45 ` Will Deacon
2012-10-17 15:45 ` [RESEND PATCH 4/4] net: smc91x: " Will Deacon
2012-10-17 15:45 ` Will Deacon
2012-10-19 8:25 ` James Hogan
2012-10-19 8:25 ` James Hogan
2012-10-19 9:27 ` Will Deacon
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