Re: [PATCH] uartlite: move from byte accesses to word accesses

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>>>>> "John" == John Linn <John.Linn@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Hi,

 >> Why is it less desired?

 John> We are wanting to use our IP cores over a PCIe bus and it only
 John> allows 32 bit accesses.

Ok, that's valuable information for the commit messages.

 John> I understand.  Most of our customers are using a 32 bit bus so
 John> that this wouldn't be a problem for most people.

 John> We could do some kind of conditional compilation for the
 John> accesses, but it's certainly less desired.  We could make 32 bit
 John> the default and then allow a kernel config to change the access
 John> size.

Naah, the project where we needed 16bit access is _OLD_, and the
platform hasn't been ported from arch/ppc, so let's just move to 32bit
access.

If you send an updated patch with a more detailed commit message then
I'll ack it.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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