Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:49:43 -0500
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Add memcpy32 function
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 05:35:59PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
 > In response to the comments that followed Roland Dreier posting our
 > InfiniPath driver for review last week, we've been making some cleanups
 > to our driver code.
 > 
 > As our chip requires 32-bit accesses, we need a copy function that
 > guarantees operating in such terms.  It was suggested that we make this
 > generic, with arch-specific optimised versions.
 > 
 > This patch introduces the generic copy routine, memcpy32.  At Andrew's
 > suggestion, I've put it in a new header file, include/linux/io.h, which
 > I've styled after include/linux/string.h.

io.h is a very generic sounding name for something that just houses
a memcpy variant.  What's wrong with calling a spade a spade,
and using memcpy32.h ?

		Dave

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