Re: [RFC] {read,write}s{b,w,l} or iobarrier_*()

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 16:12:23 EST

   From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
   Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:23:41 -0400

   Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> - Have all archs provide {read,write}s{b,w,l} functions.
> Those will hide all of the details of bytewapping & barriers
> from the drivers and can be used as-is for things like IDE
> MMIO iops.
   
   I prefer this solution...

I'm starting to think about taking back all the previous
arguments I had against this idea. It's starting to sound
like the preferred way to go.
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