Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:08:07 +0100 | From | Philipp Rumpf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] isa_{read,write}{w,l} fixed |
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> Two key points here -- > > * isa_xxx are only to ease the transition to newstyle ioremap. if you > are hacking code, go ahead and update it to use > ioremap/readX/writeX/iounmap.
I don't see how that justifies inconsistent behaviour, especially considering some old code apparently did use readb() with a pointer.
> * You can never directly use a struct to access an offset in MMIO > space. To do so is broken and bad bad bad. The only acceptable way is
No-one implied you could.
Philipp Rumpf
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