From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com (David Howells),
jes@sunsite.dk (Jes Sorensen),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjanv@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 17:41:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19921.994092096@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15H6R1-00066U-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15H6R1-00066U-00@the-village.bc.nu>
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> The question I think being ignored here is. Why not leave things as
> is.
Because if we just pass in this one extra piece of information which is
normally already available in the driver, we can avoid a whole lot of ugly
cruft in the out-of-line functions by plugging in the correct out-of-line
function to match the resource.
> The multiple bus stuff is a port specific detail hidden behind
> readb() and friends.
The alternative view is that the _single_ bus stuff is a port-specific
detail which has permeated all the drivers and forced the non-i386
architectures' I/O functions to have to try to work out which bus they're
talking to when the driver could have just passed that information to them.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-02 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-28 13:13 [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions David Howells
2001-06-28 13:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-28 13:55 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-28 16:02 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-06-29 8:31 ` David Howells
2001-06-29 21:02 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-07-02 14:22 ` David Woodhouse
2001-07-02 15:57 ` David Howells
2001-07-02 16:17 ` David Woodhouse
2001-07-02 16:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02 16:41 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-07-02 16:56 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02 18:22 ` Russell King
2001-07-02 18:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-02 20:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02 22:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-02 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02 23:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-03 12:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-03 14:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-03 2:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-03 8:38 ` David Howells
2001-07-07 11:27 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-07-03 8:15 ` David Howells
2001-07-03 8:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-03 8:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-03 9:00 ` David Howells
2001-07-03 9:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-02 22:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-03 8:04 ` David Howells
2001-07-03 7:55 ` David Howells
2001-07-03 8:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-03 8:07 ` David Howells
2001-07-03 11:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-07 11:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
[not found] <20010702191129.A29246@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
2001-07-03 8:12 ` David Howells
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