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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:09:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> Reading about the suspend to disk issue, and thinking about
> some of pmac needs, I tend to stil think we have overlooked
> that ordering issue.

Why?

If there is some ordering inherent in the bus, that has to be shown in the
bus structure. Why would you EVER care about order between devices that
are independent?

		Linus

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