From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:55:55 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] mmio barrier macro Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 04:22:42PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > This patch looks wrong to me. It shouldn't replace __ia64_mf_a() with > platform_mmiob() because this will force the use of mf.a even on > platforms that don't need it for memory-mapped I/O. Also, how about a Oh yeah, good point. I guess that means our platform specific inX/outX routines should be retained then, and we can put the barriers there. > comment explaining exactly what is being ordered with respect to whom > (yes, I know there are many examples in Linux where this hasn't been > done, but I don't think that's a good reason to make the situation > worse). Ok, I'll update that too. Thanks, Jesse