Re: iomapping a big endian area

[David S. Miller]

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 21:40:39 -0600
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> After all, the driver must know the card is BE, so the routines that
> make use of the feature are easily coded into the card, so there's no
> real need to add it to the iomem cookie.

Yes, I don't believe it needs to be in the cookie either.

> Did anyone have a preference for the API?  I was thinking
> ioread32_native, but ioread32be is fine too.

I think doing foo{be,le}{8,16,32}() would be consistent with
our byteorder.h interface names.
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