Re: [patch] the other __raw_writel's

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:50:55 -0400

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
> > 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

VAXen called 64-bit quantities Q (quadwords).

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