Christos Zoulas writes: > In article <20210123230600.52be160...@jupiter.mumble.net>, > Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-source-change...@mumble.net> 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.
