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SubjectRe: [PATCH] HPET driver
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>It's only applicable to 32-bit machines. I thik I'd prefer to let the
>>>various arch maintainers decide if this is an appropriate implementation.
>>
>>
>>Agreed, though I observe it's mostly 32-bit architectures that are
>>missing readq() and writeq() implementations...
>>
>
>
> s2io.h has a private readq/writeq implementation, which I'm removing.
> There are probably others around the place (haven't looked).
>
> This means that architecture implementation of readq()/writeq() becomes
> non-optional.

It should be non-optional, IMO.

The standard {read,write}[bwl] functions are certainly required if you
need to care about the PCI or ISA busses, at least. So {read,write}q
should follow suit.

Jeff




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