Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:01:57 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [patch] the other __raw_writel's |
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Horst von Brand wrote: > > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said: > > > jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz said: > > > > Take care, they are wrong. long is 64bit on sparc64, don't be > > > > confused by read long when it is in fact a 32bit read. > > > > Then readl and writel are the wrong names for the routines. > > > We ought to rename them while we're at it. > > > The use of l for 32bits is pretty consistent. htonl() is another fine example > > of this. If you want 64bits call em something else > > VAXen called 64-bit quantities Q (quadwords).
...which is why writeq() exists for 64-bit quantities :)
Jeff
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