Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: architecture independent readq/writeq for32bit environment

[Hitoshi Mitake]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:56, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 2012 6:47 PM, "Hitoshi Mitake" <h.mitake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>  All of them are endian aware
>
> I think that part is wrong.
>
> Pci is little-endian, so readl and writel are always already little-endian.
> Trying to make readq be endian-aware is wrong.

Is every memory area which can be read/written by read[wl]/write[wl]
always little-endian?

If so, of course I have to eliminate the big-endian version.
But I'm not sure about this point because the new readq/writeq is
in asm-generic which is used by every archs, so I'd like to ask you about it.

>
>                           Linus
>
> On Feb 6, 2012 6:47 PM, "Hitoshi Mitake" <h.mitake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



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