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

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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:43:46 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@...opsys.com>,
	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>,
	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 Monday 11 February 2013, Michal Simek wrote:
> I have just found that it won't be so easy as I thought because I have found
> that microblaze wrong implementation was done because of others device drivers.
> It means that I have to fix all device drivers to support big and
> little endian accessors
> first before I can switch microblaze to asm-generic/io.h. :-(
> 
> BTW: If you want to take this patch though your tree then ok, or it
> can go through my
> microblaze tree. Both ways should just work.

Please use your tree then. I don't have any asm-generic patches
lined up for 3.9 myself, so we can save me and Linus a little work
with a trivial pull request that way.
 
> I will send the patch for uarlite when I finish my testing on
> microblaze, ppc and arm.

Ok. Is that the only one that you found to require the "wrong-endian" mode
in microblaze.

	Arnd
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