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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] powerpc: rmb fix
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Nick Piggin writes:

> There don't seem to actually be read*_relaxed calls that also use rmb
> in the same file (although there is no reason why they might not appear).
> But I must be thinking of are the raw_read accessors. They aren't ordered
> on powerpc, and a few drivers appear to hope rmb() will order them.

Which drivers?

Paul.