Re: New resources - pls, explain :-(

Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
13 Aug 1999 14:08:09 +0200


>>>>> "Jakub" == Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

Jakub> Actually, I think it is a bad idea to call the routines
Jakub> readl_*, because the name is pure intelism. It would be much
Jakub> better to have some more descriptive names, like:

Jakub> read_le16(), write_le16() ... read_le32(), write_le32()
Jakub> read_be32(), write_be32() read_ne32(), write_ne32() ...
Jakub> #define readw read_le16 #define writew write_le16 ... #define
Jakub> readl read_le32 #define writel write_le32

In that case it would be more better to rename them to pci_read_foo()
to avoid any confusion in the future.

Jes

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