netdev - Re: [PATCH]: Preliminary release of Sun Neptune driver

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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:37:13 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ariel.Hendel@....com, greg.onufer@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Preliminary release of Sun Neptune driver

David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:05:25 -0400
> 
>> That said, the 2-arg macro arg order is wrong.  It should be (reg,val) 
>> like tg3 and other drivers.
> 
> I actually wanted to mirror the ordering that
> writel() uses.
> 
> So the choice is arbitrary, either be consistent with
> our well established asm/io.h interfaces or a bunch
> of network driver :-)

IMO (val,reg) was always unnatural.  From looking at the register 
read/write interfaces people continually reinvent, humans definitely 
lean towards (reg,val).

	Jeff



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