Re: [PATCH] Clarify pci_iomap() usage for MMIO-only devices

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Most new hardware is MMIO-only, making ioread32() only for drivers that care
> about legacy IO support, something that is being slowly phased out.  e.g.
> legacy IDE, legacy 10/100 mbps ethernet NICs with the dual MMIO/PIO register
> spaces.

Hey, I think your patch was better than the one that just assumed that you 
can do "read*/write*()" on an iomap(). If people really want it, I don't 
care *that* much.

I just think that the arguments that have been raised so far have really 
been very weak. There really is no "performance" argument without some 
kinds of numbers.

I just think that proliferation of IO interfaces is a bad idea. 

			Linus
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