* Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > well, using io_delay=udelay is not 'blindly disabling'.
> > io_delay=none would be the end goal, once all _p() API uses are
> > eliminated by transformation. In drivers/ alone that's more than
> > 1000 callsites, so it's quite frequently used, and wont go away
> > overnight.
>
> IOW elimination of broken inb_p()/outb_p() interfaces is the ultimate
> goal. Agreed.
yeah - although i'd not call it "broken", it's simply historic, and due
to the side-effects of the _implementation_, a few non-standard uses
(such as reliance on PCI posting/flushing effects) grew.
Ingo
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