Re: [PATCH] isa_{read,write}{w,l} fixed

Philipp Rumpf (prumpf@inwestnet.de)
Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:30:22 +0100


> I do. And the patch is wrong. Physical addresses are unsigned long. Take the
> errors as a chance to fix up the types in the driver.

I disagree. A lot of drivers seem to use structs as a cheap way to get
separate namespaces for their readl() / sbus_readl() offsets, and inconsistent
behaviour between readb() and isa_readb() (as well as isa_readb() on ARM
and isa_reab() on x86) would be unnecessarily confusing.

Philipp Rumpf

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