patch: honor volatile bitfield types

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:34:04AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Can we similarly promise or say something for accesses of the
> > containing struct as a whole?
> 
> I hadn't considered those cases (when would you want to copy a
> *peripheral* ?)  Should be the same as before, I would think.

Not the peripheral, just one register.  e.g. you might read a control
register into a struct of the same (32-bit) type, and then read
multiple fields from the copied struct.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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