re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/pci

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Christos Zoulas writes:
> In article <20210123230600.52BE16085E%jupiter.mumble.net@localhost>,
> Taylor R Campbell  <campbell+netbsd-source-changes-d%mumble.net@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >Conversely, how do you know whether this hacked-up implementation
> >which tears the write into two will actually work?  Maybe it works for
> >virtio but there are likely other devices out there for which it will
> >fail or have weird side effects if the architecture doesn't have
> >native 8-byte bus I/O.
>
> But it is a static function defined in virtio_pci.c. How will other
> devices use it? I must be missing something.

it's a bad example.  someone might copy it into another
driver that _doesn't_ work with this version, but may seem
to fix a build error.

that's why i wanted to wrap the usage to make it clear if
someone were to copy it elsewhere.


.mrg.