linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/block/xsysace - replace in(out)_8/in(out)_be16/in(out)

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Message-Id: <201302061620.10324.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Wed, 6 Feb 2013 16:20:10 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Cc:	Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@...opsys.com>,
	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	dahinds@...rs.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/block/xsysace - replace in(out)_8/in(out)_be16/in(out)_le16 with generic iowrite(read)8/16(be)

On Wednesday 06 February 2013, Grant Likely wrote:
> The driver already handles this. It has three sets of accessors;
> 8-bit, 16-bit LE and 16-bit BE and when doing 16-bit it figures out
> on its own which set to use at runtime. There is nothing controversial
> here. The only problem is that the driver is currently using in_/out_
> IO accessors instead of ioread/iowrite variants.

Ah right. It certainly helps to look at the source code.

	Arnd
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