> readl() is for all busses.
So is this "the standard"? It would be nice if I could make this
assumption in the future.
> If you wnt a PCI bus specific readl it should be called pci_readl(). Perhaps
> thats the root of the problem. Define pci_readl() to be strictly ordered,
> do the right byte swapping and be done with it. Define readl() to change
> no order.
Ah, wouldn't it be nice... Has anyone talked about making a concrete
decision on this issue?
I like rth's suggestion about having bus-specific ioremap() instead of a
generic one; then all readl() etc. would go through that, and do "the
right thing" for that bus. One could add "bigendian_writel()" and
"littleendian_writel()" to satisfy the Linus constraint of making
unusual usage of writel() obvious.
Regards,
Jeff
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