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

Philipp Rumpf (prumpf@inwestnet.de)
Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:08:07 +0100


> Two key points here --
>
> * isa_xxx are only to ease the transition to newstyle ioremap. if you
> are hacking code, go ahead and update it to use
> ioremap/readX/writeX/iounmap.

I don't see how that justifies inconsistent behaviour, especially
considering some old code apparently did use readb() with a pointer.

> * You can never directly use a struct to access an offset in MMIO
> space. To do so is broken and bad bad bad. The only acceptable way is

No-one implied you could.

Philipp Rumpf

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