Subject: Re: MMIO and gcc re-ordering issue

From: Alan Cox <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 11:46:34 +0100

> It's not exactly a well-established interface. Only five architectures
> define these functions, and there is not a single user in the kernel
> source outside of these architecture's io.h files.

That is because the drivers using them had them removed (eg I²O) - mostly
because "it didn't compile on power pc" 8(

Alan