Re: [patch] the other __raw_writel's

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:01:57 -0400

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Horst von Brand wrote:
>
> 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).

...which is why writeq() exists for 64-bit quantities :)

Jeff

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