Re: [patch] the other __raw_writel's
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:36:21 +0100 (BST)
> jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz said:
> > Take care, they are wrong. long is 64bit on sparc64, don't be
> > confused by read long when it is in fact a 32bit read.
>
> Then readl and writel are the wrong names for the routines.
> We ought to rename them while we're at it.
The use of l for 32bits is pretty consistent. htonl() is another fine example
of this. If you want 64bits call em something else
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