linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] asm-generic: io: don't perform swab during {in,out} string functions

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:18:58 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] asm-generic: io: don't perform swab during {in,out} string functions

On Friday 27 April 2012 06:42:56 Will Deacon wrote:
> The {in,out}s{b,w,l} functions are designed to operate on a stream of
> bytes and therefore should not perform any byte-swapping, regardless of
> the CPU byte order.

says who ?  where's the agreed upon documentation for this ?

(i'm not disagreeing with you, just that there lacks justification here, and 
someone can just as easily post another patch saying the opposite of what you 
said and there's nothing stopping us from merging it)
-mike

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