Re: linux-2.4.0-test9

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sat Nov 04 2000 - 03:26:30 EST


Ingo Oeser wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:12:31PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > But if you are going to eliminate info->vxi_base, it seems like that
> > would flush out all direct de-refs, whether they are buried in an
> > obscure macro or not. And if you find all that crap, you might as well
> > use readb/writel at that point...
> >
> > info->registers[0x7FF] = newvalue;
> > becomes
> > writel(newvalue, &info->registers[0x7FF]);
> > and
> > regval = info->registers[0x7FF];
> > becomes
> > regval = readl(&info->registers[0x7FF]);
>
> Wasn't this the clean and recommended interface anyway?
> (ref. IO-mapping.txt:150)

Absolutely! We are talking about an old driver, though, and due
consideration has to be given to not breaking existing code :)

        Jeff

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