Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/4] asm-generic: io: remove {read,write} string functions

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday 17 October 2012, Will Deacon wrote:
> The {read,write}s{b,w,l} functions are not defined across all
> architectures and therefore shouldn't be used by portable drivers. We
> should encourage driver writers to use the io{read,write}{8,16,32}_rep
> functions instead.
> 
> This patch removes the {read,write} string functions for the generic IO
> header as they have no place in a new architecture port.
> 
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

What should we do with the series? I can take them through the asm-generic
tree if you like, or we can let Catalin take them through the arm64 tree.

	Arnd
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