[PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver
Jeff Garzik
jgarzik at pobox.com
Thu Sep 21 07:29:04 EST 2006
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>>>>> 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.
A de facto standard does not need to be documented, to be a de facto
standard.
A lot of Linux "standards" are often based on emails from Linus buried
halfway down a thread. A decision gets made, and people follow.
>> 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.
Only to you, a decided minority of developers.
Jeff
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