Re: [PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver

Segher Boessenkool wrote:

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Sure, PCI busses are little-endian.  But is readX()/writeX() for PCI
only?

Yes.

For other buses, use foo_writel(), etc.

Can this please be documented then?  Never heard this before...

You have come late to the party.

WHat do you mean here?  Could you please explain?

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This has been the case for many, many years.

No, it was never documented AFAICS.

A de facto standard does not need to be documented, to be a de facto 
standard.

A lot of Linux "standards" are often based on emails from Linus buried 
halfway down a thread.  A decision gets made, and people follow.

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And there is no point in a massive rename to pci_writel(), either.

That would be really inconvenient, sure.  It's also inconvenient
that all the nice short names are PCI-only.

Only to you, a decided minority of developers.

	Jeff