From: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Gilad Avidov <gavidov@codeaurora.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
sdharia@codeaurora.org, shankerd@codeaurora.org,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, vikrams@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: emac: emac gigabit ethernet controller driver
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:09:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56708183.4090005@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1579270.z2ZaCA4LQo@wuerfel>
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> If that's in the probe() called from it function, just use writel() everywhere,
> a few extra microseconds won't kill the boot time. In general, if a user would
> notice the difference, use the relaxed version and add a comment to explain
> how you proved it's correct, otherwise stay with the default accessors.
What about adding a wmb() after the last writel()? This driver does
that a lot. Is that something we want to discourage? I can understand
how we would want to make sure that the last write is posted before the
function exits.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-15 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-15 0:19 [PATCH] net: emac: emac gigabit ethernet controller driver Gilad Avidov
2015-12-15 1:39 ` Florian Fainelli
2015-12-15 14:30 ` Christopher Covington
[not found] ` <567023F8.80302-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-15 14:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-15 15:17 ` Timur Tabi
2015-12-15 15:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-15 21:09 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2015-12-15 21:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-15 22:49 ` Gilad Avidov
2015-12-31 23:03 ` Rob Herring
[not found] ` <1450138740-32562-1-git-send-email-gavidov-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-16 0:15 ` Timur Tabi
2015-12-16 3:12 ` David Miller
2015-12-16 3:30 ` Timur Tabi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-12-07 22:58 Gilad Avidov
2015-12-07 23:33 ` Felix Fietkau
2015-12-07 23:47 ` Gilad Avidov
2015-12-07 23:37 ` kbuild test robot
2015-12-09 20:09 ` Timur Tabi
2015-12-09 20:37 ` Fabio Estevam
2015-12-09 20:58 ` David Miller
2015-12-10 0:26 ` Gilad Avidov
2015-12-10 4:04 ` Timur Tabi
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