[PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Sep 21 06:06:32 EST 2006
>>>> Sure, PCI busses are little-endian. But is readX()/writeX() for
>>>> PCI
>>>> only?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> For other buses, use foo_writel(), etc.
>> Can this please be documented then? Never heard this before...
>
> You have come late to the party.
WHat do you mean here? Could you please explain?
> This has been the case for many, many years.
No, it was never documented AFAICS.
> And there is no point in a massive rename to pci_writel(), either.
That would be really inconvenient, sure. It's also inconvenient
that all the nice short names are PCI-only.
Segher
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