Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932096AbWCILoT (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 06:44:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932104AbWCILoT (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 06:44:19 -0500 Received: from mout0.freenet.de ([194.97.50.131]:45505 "EHLO mout0.freenet.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932096AbWCILoR (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 06:44:17 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers [try #2] Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:44:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <17423.42185.78767.837295@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <17423.42185.78767.837295@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds , akpm@osdl.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, Alan Cox , linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1961345.meoHJZIQSV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603091244.09621.mbuesch@freenet.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1029 Lines: 34 --nextPart1961345.meoHJZIQSV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 09 March 2006 04:45, you wrote: > ... then I can remove the sync from write*, which would be nice, and > make mmiowb() be a sync. I wonder how long we're going to spend > chasing driver bugs after that, though. :) Can you do a patch, which does the change, so people can actually test their drivers? =2D-=20 Greetings Michael. --nextPart1961345.meoHJZIQSV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEEBUJlb09HEdWDKgRAk/pAJ9pjsBhZ81hSzSg1kUCfW9QUcvCAgCfVm+/ /2Z+9pH/To4hM1H6OJoPUf8= =FH+3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1961345.meoHJZIQSV-- - 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/