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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions
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David Howells wrote:
> Of course, however, this still requires cookie decoding to be done in readb
> and writeb (even on the i386). So why not use resource struct?

IMHO that makes the operation too heavyweight on architectures where
that level of abstraction is not needed.

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