Re: [PATCH 1/2] asm-generic: io: remove {read,write} string functions

Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-27T12:13:11Z

On Friday 27 April 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.

I think we need to put these functions back into the blackfin version,
basically reverting efb2d31c1c, but otherwise the patch looks good
to me.

Arnd