netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/2] can: add driver for Softing card

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Date:	Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:54:42 +0100
From:	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	kurt.van.dijck@....be, socketcan-core@...ts.berlios.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/2] can: add driver for Softing card

On 01/03/2011 06:33 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@....be>
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:38:35 +0100
> 
>> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:44:08PM +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>>>
>>>>> hmmm..all stuff behind dpram is __iomem, isn't it? I think it should
>>>>> only be accessed with via the ioread/iowrite operators. Please check
>>>> I did an ioremap_nocache. Since it is unaligned, ioread/iowrite would render
>>>> a lot of statements.
>>>
>>> The thing is, ioremapped mem should not be accessed directly. Instead
>>> ioread/iowrite should be used. The softing driver should work on non x86
>>> platforms, too.
>>>
>> I use __attribute__((packed)) structs to refer to the iomemory.
>> To read an unaligned uint16_t, is should then use 2 readb()'s ??
>>
>> I could of course turn that sequence into a macro ....
> 
> Yes, this is what you'll need to do.

There's ioread() and get_unaligned(). Do we have a combination of this?

Marc
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