From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:51:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 06/12] omap: mailbox: Flush posted write when acking mailbox irq In-Reply-To: <4ABC6D55.3000108@gmail.com> References: <20090924233027.6065.95725.stgit@localhost> <20090924233920.6065.16789.stgit@localhost> <4ABC6D55.3000108@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20090925155121.GU4919@atomide.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org * Artem Bityutskiy [090925 00:15]: > On 09/25/2009 02:39 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote: >> From: Hiroshi DOYU >> >> The only way to flush posted write to L4 bus is to do a read back >> of the same register right after the write. > > Just curious, is it really necessary to read back the _same_ register? > Would reading back any L4 bus-related register be sufficient? It seems that reading back any register in the same device will do it. Tony