Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-rc5-mm1: drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2.c compile error | From | Roland Dreier <> | Date | Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:51:32 -0700 |
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Andrew> No, driver-specific workarounds are not legitimate, sorry.
Andrew> The driver should simply fail to compile on architectures Andrew> which do not implement __raw_writeq().
But how should i386 (say) implement __raw_writeq()? As two __raw_writel()s protected by a spinlock (that serializes all IO transactions)? That seems rather ugly.
- R.
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