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Subject: Re: DAC960 in 2.5.38, with new changes
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   From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
   Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:19:02 -0700
   
   This looks like a porting-nightmare in the making.  There's got to be a
   better way to determine whether you need a writeq() vs. a writel().

Or perhaps every platform should provide a writeq(), on 32-bit systems
it may merely be implemented as two consequetive writel() calls.