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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: tw32_f() in tg3_write_mem()
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:07:19 -0700 (PDT)
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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:05:40 -0700

> Reading back the data register is a safe thing to do. This
> guarantees that the data is written before we change the address
> register to the zero value. Without the read, there is a danger of
> the value being written to SRAM address 0 instead of the desired
> address.

Writes can be posted, but they cannot be reordered can they?