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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] asm-generic: io: don't perform swab during {in,out} string functions
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:18:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201204271219.00596.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1335523376-14695-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>

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On Friday 27 April 2012 06:42:56 Will Deacon wrote:
> The {in,out}s{b,w,l} functions are designed to operate on a stream of
> bytes and therefore should not perform any byte-swapping, regardless of
> the CPU byte order.

says who ?  where's the agreed upon documentation for this ?

(i'm not disagreeing with you, just that there lacks justification here, and 
someone can just as easily post another patch saying the opposite of what you 
said and there's nothing stopping us from merging it)
-mike

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-27 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-27 10:42 [PATCH 1/2] asm-generic: io: remove {read,write} string functions Will Deacon
2012-04-27 10:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] asm-generic: io: don't perform swab during {in,out} " Will Deacon
2012-04-27 12:12   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-27 16:18   ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2012-04-27 16:59     ` Will Deacon
2012-04-27 17:26       ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-27 12:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] asm-generic: io: remove {read,write} " Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-27 16:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-27 16:53   ` Will Deacon
2012-04-27 17:18     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-28  8:46     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-04-27 20:29   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-27 16:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-27 17:14   ` Will Deacon
2012-04-27 17:53     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-27 20:52       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-27 23:26         ` Mike Frysinger
2012-05-01 13:34           ` Will Deacon
2012-05-01 14:40             ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-05-01 18:28             ` Mike Frysinger

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