Re: [patch] the other __raw_writel's

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:20:28 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 03:57:34PM -0700, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> > Isn't this because a "longword" is 32 bits? So the use of "q" for
> > "quadword" is appropriate for a 64 bit operation.
> How confusing, on MIPS q stands for quadword, 128 bit.

Why not just be explicit. write32, write64, etc. Zero ambiguity.

-Dan

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