Re: SATA resume slowness, e1000 MSI warning

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Rumor has it that some pci devices can't tolerate < 32bit accesses.
> Although I have never met one.

hopefully not bridge devices?

> The two factors together suggest that
> for generic code it probably makes sense to operate on 32bit
> quantities, and just to ignore the read-only portion.

The code for regular devices seems to use 16-bit accesses, so
I think it's best to stay consistent. Or do you want to change this too?

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