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From: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] pcnet32: Remove pointless memory barriers
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:07:57 -0500
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On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 10:10 -0700, Don Fry wrote:
> How would this be tested on all architectures to find out?

Testing could never prove that the barriers _aren't_ needed, because
you'd never be sure that you'd hit the right conditions. 

  --  John