Messages in this thread | | | From | Logan Gunthorpe <> | Date | Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:09:55 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/7] alpha: provide ioread64 and iowrite64 implementations |
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On 6/22/2017 2:08 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > But this does not do the same thing as an ioread64 with regards to > atomicity or side effects on the device. The same is true of the other > hacks. You either have a real 64bit single read/write from MMIO space or > you don't. You can't fake it.
Yes, I know. But is it not better than having every driver that wants to use these functions fake it themselves?
Logan
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