Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Constant byteorder macros. | Date | Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:25:32 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > b/w/d would make more sense in PCI nomenclature. Too late > > Why's it too late? Are these names specified in the PCI spec, or just the > Linux code?
In Linux. The b/w/d is the PCI specification "byte word doubleword" sequence
> We could add {write,read}{8,16,32,64} routines now, #define the old > read[bwl] accordingly, and in early 2.5 start to warn about the use of the old > versions.
How about fixing the 2.3.x bugs and getting 2.4 out before that ?
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