Re: [PATCH 18/18] asm-generic: io: define relaxed accessor macros unconditionally

From: Michal Simek
Date: Wed Apr 23 2014 - 03:12:44 EST


Hi Will,

On 04/22/2014 05:18 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Michal,
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 03:09:46PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
>> On 04/17/2014 03:44 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> Now that no architectures using asm-generic/io.h define their own relaxed
>>> accessors, the dummy definitions can be used unconditionally.
>>>
>>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> include/asm-generic/io.h | 18 ------------------
>>> 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)
>>
>> Do we need this? I think there could be a need to overwrite them.
>> Currently we are just lucky that architecture which uses asm-generic/io.h
>> don't need to overwrite it.
>> But I expect that all archs should use asm-generic/io.h to clean
>> architecture io.h exactly I have done it for Microblaze.
>
> I'm open to keeping the conditional definitions, but it introduces a
> discrepancy with the non-relaxed versions, which are defined unconditionally
> (although the underlying __raw_* accessors can be overridden).

up to you.

Thanks,
Michal


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