From: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 4/4] net: smc91x: use io{read,write}*_rep accessors
 instead of string functions
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:25:48 +0100
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On 17/10/12 16:45, Will Deacon wrote:
> The {read,write}s{b,w,l} operations are not defined by all architectures
> and are being removed from the asm-generic/io.h interface.
> 
> This patch replaces the usage of these string functions in the default
> SMC accessors with io{read,write}{8,16,32}_rep calls instead, which are
> defined for all architectures.

Hi,

Should this patch (and the mmc one) precede patch 1?

Also there appear to be some other places that it's used (e.g.
smsc911x.c and smc911x.h). I guess these should be fixed up first too?

Cheers
James