From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:29:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4511B2A0.2010607@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82BFB659-DCB3-477C-B53D-4D8C55BAADB7@kernel.crashing.org>
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>>>>> Sure, PCI busses are little-endian. But is readX()/writeX() for PCI
>>>>> only?
>>>>
>>>> Yes.
>>>>
>>>> For other buses, use foo_writel(), etc.
>>> Can this please be documented then? Never heard this before...
>>
>> You have come late to the party.
>
> WHat do you mean here? Could you please explain?
>
>> This has been the case for many, many years.
>
> No, it was never documented AFAICS.
A de facto standard does not need to be documented, to be a de facto
standard.
A lot of Linux "standards" are often based on emails from Linus buried
halfway down a thread. A decision gets made, and people follow.
>> And there is no point in a massive rename to pci_writel(), either.
>
> That would be really inconvenient, sure. It's also inconvenient
> that all the nice short names are PCI-only.
Only to you, a decided minority of developers.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-20 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-19 4:54 Fw: [PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver Stephen Rothwell
2006-09-19 18:42 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-09-19 18:52 ` Matt Sealey
2006-09-19 19:44 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-09-19 23:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-20 0:21 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-20 0:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-20 0:58 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-20 1:17 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-09-20 1:41 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-20 0:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-20 1:08 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-20 1:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-20 20:06 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-20 21:29 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-09-19 23:18 ` Fw: " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-19 23:27 ` Paul Mackerras
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