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From: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers [try #2]
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:44:09 +0100
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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.

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