From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iomapping a big endian area
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:21:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050405072104.GA26208@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1112649465.5813.106.camel@mulgrave>
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:17:45PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> OK, I sent the patch off to Andrew. To complete the original problem,
> the attached is the patch that uses it in the parisc lasi driver
> (although, actually, it sets up 53c700 to work everywhere including BE
> on a LE system).
>
> I changed some of the flags around to reflect the fact that we now have
> generic BE support in the driver (rather than the more limited
> force_le_on_be flag).
What I really don't like is that you still need ifdefs and wrappers to
support BE and LE wired chips in the same driver. Shouldn't you set the
BE or LE flag at iomap() time and always use the same accessors?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-05 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-02 20:52 [PATCH] finally fix 53c700 to use the generic iomem infrastructure James Bottomley
2005-04-03 1:37 ` iomapping a big endian area Matthew Wilcox
2005-04-03 2:38 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-03 3:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-04-03 3:40 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-03 4:08 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-03 4:27 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-04 7:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-04 13:59 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-04 14:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-04 14:25 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-07 23:57 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-04-04 14:22 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-04 23:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-04 23:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-04 7:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-05 7:42 ` Russell King
2005-04-05 14:05 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-05 18:55 ` Russell King
2005-04-05 20:02 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-04-04 21:17 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-05 7:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-04-05 14:05 ` James Bottomley
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