Re: [PATCH] I/O helpers rework

[Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@inso.tuwien.ac.at>]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 13:05 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> 
> > jfyi, this change broke mtd and au1xxx-usb on big endian au1xxx systems,
> > as the _raw calls do suddenly byteswapping :-(
> > 
> > was this intended?
> 
>  It was.  Generic code elsewhere expects it and the MIPS implementation 
> used to be broken because of that.  Note these functions are intended for 
> PCI/EISA/ISA accesses only and these buses are little-endian by 
> definition.  More specifically __raw_ calls are mainly for PIO copying 
> to/from memory over these buses when you want to keep byte ordering the 
> same as it would be for a DMA transfer.

>  If you have a driver that handles a non-PCI/EISA/ISA device you may and 
> probably should use bus_ calls to get a non-swapped access.

so this means, the mtd subsystem should use them and that the patch
below is the way to fix it? (hoping it won't brake on other systems?)

Index: map.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/linux/include/linux/mtd/map.h,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -r1.12 map.h
--- map.h       25 Oct 2004 20:44:46 -0000      1.12
+++ map.h       10 Jan 2005 14:45:00 -0000
@@ -343,14 +343,14 @@
        map_word r;
 
        if (map_bankwidth_is_1(map))
-               r.x[0] = __raw_readb(map->virt + ofs);
+               r.x[0] = readb(map->virt + ofs);
        else if (map_bankwidth_is_2(map))
-               r.x[0] = __raw_readw(map->virt + ofs);
+               r.x[0] = readw(map->virt + ofs);
        else if (map_bankwidth_is_4(map))
-               r.x[0] = __raw_readl(map->virt + ofs);
+               r.x[0] = readl(map->virt + ofs);
 #if BITS_PER_LONG >= 64
        else if (map_bankwidth_is_8(map))
-               r.x[0] = __raw_readq(map->virt + ofs);
+               r.x[0] = readq(map->virt + ofs);
 #endif
        else if (map_bankwidth_is_large(map))
                memcpy_fromio(r.x, map->virt+ofs, map->bankwidth);
@@ -361,14 +361,14 @@
 static inline void inline_map_write(struct map_info *map, const map_word 
datum, unsigned long ofs)
 {
        if (map_bankwidth_is_1(map))
-               __raw_writeb(datum.x[0], map->virt + ofs);
+               writeb(datum.x[0], map->virt + ofs);
        else if (map_bankwidth_is_2(map))
-               __raw_writew(datum.x[0], map->virt + ofs);
+               writew(datum.x[0], map->virt + ofs);
        else if (map_bankwidth_is_4(map))
-               __raw_writel(datum.x[0], map->virt + ofs);
+               writel(datum.x[0], map->virt + ofs);
 #if BITS_PER_LONG >= 64
        else if (map_bankwidth_is_8(map))
-               __raw_writeq(datum.x[0], map->virt + ofs);
+               writeq(datum.x[0], map->virt + ofs);
 #endif
        else if (map_bankwidth_is_large(map))
                memcpy_toio(map->virt+ofs, datum.x, map->bankwidth);


-- 
Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@inso.tuwien.ac.at>