Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:03:13 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-rc5-mm1: drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2.c compile error |
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On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:51:32 -0700 Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> wrote:
> 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. >
If it's a choice between "ugly" and "doesn't work on x86", we'll take "ugly" ;)
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