linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/18] asm-generic: io: define relaxed accessor macros unconditionally

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Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:18:09 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>
Cc:	"linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>,
	"dhowells@...hat.com" <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	"broonie@...aro.org" <broonie@...aro.org>,
	"benh@...nel.crashing.org" <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"peterz@...radead.org" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/18] asm-generic: io: define relaxed accessor macros
 unconditionally

Hi Michal,

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 03:09:46PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
> On 04/17/2014 03:44 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Now that no architectures using asm-generic/io.h define their own relaxed
> > accessors, the dummy definitions can be used unconditionally.
> > 
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> > ---
> >  include/asm-generic/io.h | 18 ------------------
> >  1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)
> 
> Do we need this? I think there could be a need to overwrite them.
> Currently we are just lucky that architecture which uses asm-generic/io.h
> don't need to overwrite it.
> But I expect that all archs should use asm-generic/io.h to clean
> architecture io.h exactly I have done it for Microblaze.

I'm open to keeping the conditional definitions, but it introduces a
discrepancy with the non-relaxed versions, which are defined unconditionally
(although the underlying __raw_* accessors can be overridden).

Will
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