Re: arch/x86/Kconfig selects invalid HAVE_READQ, HAVE_WRITEQ vars

[Roland Dreier]

 > Do you really expect driver authors to type writeq_nonatomic() for
 > every register reference?

No -- that's why I didn't even bring it up at first and why I consider
it ugly.

 > I think an #include at the top is one thing, but something that
 > heavyweight for each call site really isn't going to fly.

Yeah, I guess that could work, although I do worry that debugging the
wrong choice of #include might be a pain (mysterious symptoms on 32-bit
architectures caused by the name of an include file would be hard to
track).

To be honest I think the status quo ante was not really that bad.

 - R.
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