From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Robert.Picco@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HPET driver
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 21:59:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40A96E11.5040000@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040517184621.0da52a3c.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>It's only applicable to 32-bit machines. I thik I'd prefer to let the
>>>various arch maintainers decide if this is an appropriate implementation.
>>
>>
>>Agreed, though I observe it's mostly 32-bit architectures that are
>>missing readq() and writeq() implementations...
>>
>
>
> s2io.h has a private readq/writeq implementation, which I'm removing.
> There are probably others around the place (haven't looked).
>
> This means that architecture implementation of readq()/writeq() becomes
> non-optional.
It should be non-optional, IMO.
The standard {read,write}[bwl] functions are certainly required if you
need to care about the PCI or ISA busses, at least. So {read,write}q
should follow suit.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-18 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-13 22:34 [PATCH] HPET driver Robert Picco
2004-05-13 23:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-13 23:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 23:53 ` HPET docs Jeff Garzik
2004-05-13 23:49 ` [PATCH] HPET driver Jeff Garzik
2004-05-14 11:19 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-05-14 16:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 22:33 ` Robert Picco
2004-05-17 22:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 22:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 23:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 23:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 23:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 23:25 ` Russell King
2004-05-17 23:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 23:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 23:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-18 1:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-18 1:59 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
[not found] ` <m1vfit3939.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
[not found] ` <52fz9xpp5l.fsf@topspin.com>
2004-05-18 23:01 ` readq/writeq on 32bit machines Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-19 0:58 ` Roland Dreier
2004-05-19 3:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <16553.28862.590897.171478@napali.hpl.hp.com>
2004-05-20 2:01 ` [PATCH] HPET driver Jeff Garzik
2004-05-13 23:18 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] <200406181616.i5IGGECd003812@hera.kernel.org>
2004-06-18 20:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-18 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-18 22:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-23 21:34 ` Robert Picco
2004-06-23 21:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-23 22:23 ` Andrew Morton
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