> >
> > This set:
> > #define inb_p(addr) inb(addr)
> > #define inw_p(addr) inw(addr)
> > #define inl_p(addr) inl(addr)
> > #define outb_p(x, addr) outb((x), (addr))
> > #define outw_p(x, addr) outw((x), (addr))
> > #define outl_p(x, addr) outl((x), (addr))
> >
> > Should have a comment that say they are deprecated.
> > Especially the "b" variants still have many users.
>
> Are they? I don't remember ever seeing a reason to deprecate
> them. We could perhaps enclose them in #ifdef CONFIG_ISA, but
> there may also be some drivers that use the same code for ISA
> and PCI, and it doesn't really hurt on PCI.
It is my understanding that inl and inl_p are the same these days.
A quick grep indicate that only m68k define the
_p variant different from the other.
But I failed to find and description of the difference between the
two which is why I assumed they were identical and thus no need for both.
Sam
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