Discussion
Peripheral register accesses in a Linux driver are made with readl and writel rather than plain dereferences chiefly to
Answer: B
The accessors carry the compiler and processor barriers appropriate to the architecture and handle byte order where it differs, which a bare pointer dereference does not. On some architectures the difference is decisive.
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