I have been working on a driver for a PowerPC PCI card/framebuffer device,
and noticed that the standard readl() and writel() for this platform to
byte swapping, since PowerPC runs big-endian. However, at least for my
hardware it's *really* not needed, and should just do a regular load
store, as
So I'm writing some code for a PCI card that is a framebuffer device, and
happily filling in the functions for the probe() and remove() functions
when I read documentation (Documentation/pci.txt) which mentions that
remove() can be called from interrupt context.
Now in order to properly tear dow
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