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From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Add memcpy32 function
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:50:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1135381822.26606.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051223174228.GA29679@infradead.org>

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 17:42 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Actually I think memcpy32 is not the thing pathscale wants.  They want
> memcpy_{to,from}_io32, because memcpy32 wouldn't be allowed to operate
> on I/O mapped memory.  I'd say back to the drawingboard.

Fair enough.  I'll follow Matt's suggestion of iowrite32_copy and
ioread32_copy, in that case, and put them in asm-generic/iomap.h.

> And to pathscale:  please get your driver __iomem and endianess annotated
> before sending out further core patches, I'm pretty sure getting those
> things fixed will shed some light on the actual requirements.

OK, will do.

	<b

-- 
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-23 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-23  1:35 [RFC] [PATCH] Add memcpy32 function Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-23  2:49 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-23 17:16   ` Matt Mackall
2005-12-23 17:42     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-23 18:14       ` Matt Mackall
2005-12-23 23:50       ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]
2005-12-28 11:01 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-28 15:00   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-28 17:50     ` Andreas Kleen
2005-12-28 18:11       ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-28 18:22         ` Andreas Kleen

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