Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] the other __raw_writel's | Date | Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:50:55 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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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). -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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