Re: [PATCH 1/2] asm-generic: io: remove {read,write} string functions

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue May 01 2012 - 10:41:18 EST


On Tuesday 01 May 2012, Will Deacon wrote:
> It would be nice if we could just use asm-generic/io.h as the documention,
> i.e. if you want to write a portable driver, just stick to the functions
> implemented there. Apart from the string accessors, I think it's already
> fairly accurate. The __raw_* functions seem to be missing on s390 but I
> don't think driver portability is a huge concern for that architecture.

Actually, s390 has none of the mmio accessors right now, because there
is no PCI or other memory mapped hardware.

Arnd
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