Re: user space writel() etc. in 2.2.2

Vassili Leonov (vleo@linuxmedialabs.com)
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:41:03 -0700 (MST)


On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > the IO memory space for the board. I want a portable, provided by Linux
> > libraries equivalent of
> >
> > ((*(volatile unsigned char *) ( base )) = ( v )) ;
>
> So define one - the above is the portable way to do it.
>
> > before 2.1.3 that was asm/io.h that defined writel(v,base) as such.
> > Then the #ifdef __KERNEL__ was put around them.
>
> The kernel one does do what you describe. It also do a physical to virtual
> remapping.

Then, why not put this define back into io.h, when __KERENEL__ is not
defined? Which will NOT do virtual to bus remapping.

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