Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] asm-generic/io.h overhaul

[Thierry Reding]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 01:53:30PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Thierry Reding
> <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here is the fourth version of a series that started out as an attempt to
> > provide string versions of the read*() and write*() accessors to more
> > architectures so that drivers can use them portably. The series has
> > since evolved into a more general cleanup of asm-generic/io.h and the
> > functions defined therein.
> >
> > Patch 1 is trivial and removes a redundant redefinition of PCI_IOBASE
> > from the asm/io.h header on ARC. Patches 2 and 3 remove unnecessary
> > volatile keywoards from some functions, which is a prerequisite to clean
> > up some of the functions in subsequent patches.
> >
> > The xlate_dev_{kmem,mem}_ptr() functions are used to map memory when the
> > /dev/mem device is accessed. Patches 4 and 5 use more consistent data
> > types for these functions, which will get a "standard" prototype in the
> > asm-generic/io.h header in a subsequent patch.
> >
> > Patch 6 is the bulk of this series. It implements the string variants of
> > the read*() and write*() accessors and cleans up various other parts of
> > the asm-generic/io.h header file. Macros are converted to static inline
> > functions for better type checking. Overriding generic implementations
> > in architectures is handled more consistently.
> >
> > Patches 7 and 8, finally, make use of the asm-generic/io.h header on the
> > 32-bit and 64-bit ARM architectures.
> >
> > This is compile- and runtime-tested on 32-bit and 64-bit ARM and compile
> > tested on IA64, Microblaze, s390, SPARC, x86 and Xtensa. For ARC,
> > Blackfin, Metag, OpenRISC, Score and Unicore32 which also use
> > asm-generic/io.h I couldn't find or build a cross-compiler that would
> > run on my system. But by code inspection they shouldn't break with this
> > patch.
> >
> > To ensure bisectability I built multi_v7_defconfig on 32-bit ARM and the
> > defconfig for 64-bit ARM, IA64, Microblaze, s390, SPARC, x86 and Xtensa
> > after each commit and verified that the series does not introduce any
> > build errors or warnings.
> >
> > Provided there are no objections to the patches there's still the matter
> > of how to merge them. Patch 6 depends on patches 1-5 to avoid warnings
> > and/or errors during the build. Patches 7 and 8 depend on patch 6. In my
> > opinion it doesn't make much sense to split them up, so I guess we'll
> > need a volunteer to take them all into one tree. Ideally that tree would
> > feed into linux-next so that we can get as much build and test-coverage
> > as possible during the 3.17 release cycle so that these patches can go
> > into 3.18.
> >
> > Arnd, I'm opportunistically sending this To: you in the hopes that you
> > can take it into your asm-generic tree which seems like the best fit for
> > this.
> 
> Do you have a git tree for that?
> Would be nice for testing UML, it depends also on generic io.

Yes, it's all here:

	https://github.com/thierryreding/linux.git staging/asm-generic-io

That branch is based on today's linux-next (next-20140825).

Thierry

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