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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s2io ppc64 fix for readq/writeq
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:51:31 +1100
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On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 01:50 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > Anyway, what do you think of Jeff proposal to just implement them as two
> > 32 bits operations ? My arch guy side screams at the idea, but if,
> > indeed, drivers generally cope fine with it, I suppose that's ok.
> 
> Last I saw, that's how normal PCI will split the IO anyway, so I guess it 
> makes sense.

Hrm.. true indeed. I'll implement them that way for ppc32 then.

Ben.