[PATCH v6 1/6] gpio: davinci: use readl/writel instead of __raw_*

Taras Kondratiuk taras.kondratiuk at linaro.org
Fri Nov 22 05:08:51 EST 2013


On 21 November 2013 20:15, Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: "Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg at gmail.com>
>
> This patch replaces the __raw_readl/writel with
> readl and writel, Altough the code runs on ARMv5
> based SOCs, changing this will help copying the code
> for other uses.

This replacement has a functional impact: it adds memory barriers.
Please note this in the description.
Also please add a bit of explanation on why do you need to add barriers.

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Regards,
Taras Kondratiuk



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