> Two key points here --
>
> * isa_xxx are only to ease the transition to newstyle ioremap. if you
> are hacking code, go ahead and update it to use
> ioremap/readX/writeX/iounmap.
I don't see how that justifies inconsistent behaviour, especially
considering some old code apparently did use readb() with a pointer.
> * You can never directly use a struct to access an offset in MMIO
> space. To do so is broken and bad bad bad. The only acceptable way is
No-one implied you could.
Philipp Rumpf
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