Subject: Re: [Patch]8139too: remove unnecessary cast of ioread32()'s return value

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 19:24:18 -0400

On 05/30/2010 06:34 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik<[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 13:35:51 -0400
>
>> Have you verified this matches all architectures definition of
>> readl()?

> And if it doesn't match, that's an arch bug which should be fixed and
> in any event there is only one possibility of a non-match and that is
> if the routine returns "unsigned long"

That was the genesis of the question.  Some arches still use unsigned long.

	Jeff