>> As Patrick already said, compared to the total effort to integrate external
>> sources, the issue of argument order is insignificant. In the time you spent
>> writing this email, you could have found out how to do it with coccinelle, and
>> could have applied it to any number of sources.
>
> http://review.coreboot.org/8483

Remember that those other code bases use writel(v, a), not write32(v,
a). Just going half the way by changing the order but not the name
wouldn't be very useful I think.