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Subject: Re: RFC: being more anal about iospace accesses..
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, Linux Arch list <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Right now we have writeb and __writeb() the later of which isn't store
ordering but requires the driver author makes an effort to step on a
land mine. It does help performance having these in some cases so can't
we propogate the same "__" functions on