Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] the other __raw_writel's | Date | Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:36:21 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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
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