Re: 2.6.18-rc5-mm1: drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2.c compile error

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Fri Sep 01 2006 - 16:48:55 EST


Andrew> No, driver-specific workarounds are not legitimate, sorry.

Andrew> The driver should simply fail to compile on architectures
Andrew> which do not implement __raw_writeq().

But how should i386 (say) implement __raw_writeq()? As two
__raw_writel()s protected by a spinlock (that serializes all IO
transactions)? That seems rather ugly.

- R.

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