Re: [PATCH 3/3] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: introduce localbus and pata nodes

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On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:34:11PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> 
> >>>2. "ioport" because shift^Wstride ;-) applies only to the io range
> >>> (yes, it's obvious, but worth open-wording, no?).
> 
> >>  Contrarywise, to memory range.
> 
> >By io range I meant "I/O base", in contrast to "CTL base".
> 
> >There is no need to apply shifting for CTL. That's why ioport-*
> >appeared in the first place.
> 
>    So, a matter of wrong terminology then. The thing that you meant by 
>    "I/O" is actually called "command block".

Yes. And IO is the second name. It's used widespread in the
drivers/ide/.

Now you understand why I'm so reluctant to hanging up different
labels on the single thing? ;-)

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