Re: [PATCH 2/2] asm-generic: io: don't perform swab during {in,out} string functions

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 27 April 2012, Will Deacon wrote:
> The {in,out}s{b,w,l} functions are designed to operate on a stream of
> bytes and therefore should not perform any byte-swapping, regardless of
> the CPU byte order.
> 
> This patch fixes the generic IO header so that {in,out}s{b,w,l} call
> the __raw_{read,write} functions directly rather than going via the
> endian-correcting accessors.
> 
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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