Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932117AbWAESEk (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:04:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932125AbWAESEj (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:04:39 -0500 Received: from c-67-174-241-67.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([67.174.241.67]:49827 "EHLO plato.virtuousgeek.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932117AbWAESEi (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:04:38 -0500 From: Jesse Barnes To: Anton Blanchard Subject: Re: [patch 00/21] mutex subsystem, -V14 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:04:31 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: Nick Piggin , Linus Torvalds , Nicolas Pitre , Joel Schopp , Ingo Molnar , lkml , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Jes Sorensen , Al Viro , Oleg Nesterov , David Howells , Alan Cox , Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , Russell King References: <20060104144151.GA27646@elte.hu> <43BC90CE.4040201@yahoo.com.au> <20060105033951.GD10140@krispykreme> In-Reply-To: <20060105033951.GD10140@krispykreme> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601051004.31449.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 782 Lines: 16 On Wednesday, January 4, 2006 7:39 pm, Anton Blanchard wrote: > SGIs mmiowb() might be useful for some of these cases but every time > its brought up everyone ends up confused as to its real use. It's documented in Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl. If the documentation isn't clear, we should fix it, rather than avoid using the primitive altogether. If drivers/net really means mmiowb() in some places, we should change it, and like you said maybe get rid of some of these primitives so that their usage is clearer. Jesse - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/