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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: lib/iomap.c mmio_{in,out}s* vs. __raw_* accessors
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 14:06:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061104140559.GC19760@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162626761.28571.14.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 06:52:41PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> In fact, I would be very very very much in favor of, instead of the
> above, defining a set of:
> 
> readsb, readsw, readsl, readsq
> writesb, writesw, writesl, writesq

ARM already has these.  Sounds like a good idea for everyone else to also
implement them. 8)

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-04 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-04  7:52 lib/iomap.c mmio_{in,out}s* vs. __raw_* accessors Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-04 14:06 ` Russell King [this message]
2006-11-04 22:17   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-04 23:52     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-05  1:10       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-05  3:32         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-05  3:46           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-05  3:55             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-05  4:00             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-05  4:16               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-05  4:38                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-05  5:00                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-05  5:08                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-05  5:28                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-06  2:56                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-06  3:13                           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-06  4:50                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-05  3:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-05  3:49           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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