Re: [PATCH] deviceiobook.tmpl update

[Grant Grundler]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 03:41:49PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Greg and Grant, how does this small update look?

looks good to me.

thanks,
grant

> 
> Thanks,
> Jesse

> ===== Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl 1.5 vs edited =====
> --- 1.5/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl	2004-10-25 13:06:49 -07:00
> +++ edited/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl	2004-10-29 15:38:01 -07:00
> @@ -195,7 +195,12 @@
>  	be strongly ordered coming from different CPUs.  Thus it's important
>  	to properly protect parts of your driver that do memory-mapped writes
>  	with locks and use the <function>mmiowb</function> to make sure they
> -	arrive in the order intended.
> +	arrive in the order intended.  Issuing a regular <function>readX
> +	</function> will also ensure write ordering, but should only be used
> +	when the driver has to be sure that the write has actually arrived
> +	at the device (not that it's simply ordered with respect to other
> +	writes), since a full <function>readX</function> is a relatively
> +	expensive operation.
>        </para>
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