Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:57:34 -0700 (PDT) | From | "B. James Phillippe" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] the other __raw_writel's |
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On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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
Isn't this because a "longword" is 32 bits? So the use of "q" for "quadword" is appropriate for a 64 bit operation.
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