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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:23:36 +0300
From: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Do cpu-endian MMIO accessors exist?
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On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:19:12 +0200
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> > > It would of course be easy to just define an API extension
> > > to ioread along the lines of
> > > 
> > > #ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
> > > #define ioread16_native ioread16be
> > > #define ioread32_native ioread32be
> > > #define iowrite16_native iowrite16be
> > > #define iowrite32_native iowrite32be
> > > #else
> > > #define ioread16_native ioread16
> > > #define ioread32_native ioread32
> > > #define iowrite16_native iowrite16
> > > #define iowrite32_native iowrite32
> > > #endif
> > > 
> > > but I'm not yet convinced that there is a potential user that
> > > should not just be fixed in a different way.
> > 
> > This is how it currently is.
> 
> Well, I meant we could add it to asm-generic/iomap.h. If we
> decide that this is the right approach after all, it should
> be part of the common linux API, not private to a single driver.

Yes, I understood. I believe I should wait until Nouveau gets ready
to be sent upstream before proposing your extension as a real patch.


Thank you very much.

-- 
Pekka Paalanen
http://www.iki.fi/pq/
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