Re: [PATCHv5 1/4] arm64: io: Use asm-generic high level MMIO accessors

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 2:52 PM Sai Prakash Ranjan
<quic_saipraka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sorry, what I meant was the literal name of these macros, i.e.,
> __iormb() has more explicit naming as
> IO read memory barrier and __io_ar() is IO after read? So doesn't it
> make more sense that __iormb()
> should be the primary definition which is already the case and ar/bw
> should be based on them.

My reasoning was that we should ideally only have one set, and that
__io_ar()/__io_bw() are the ones used in architecture-independent code,
so I'd rather use those and deprecate the arm64 specific ones, eventually
moving all the arm64 specific code to use those directly where needed.

        Arnd