Re: [PATCH 2.4.32] Fix AVM C4 ISDN card init problems with newerCPUs

[Alan Cox]

Ar Iau, 2006-08-03 am 19:53 +0300, ysgrifennodd Jukka Partanen:
> AVM C4 ISDN NIC: Add three memory barriers, taken from 2.6.7,
> (they are there in 2.6.17.7 too), to fix module initialization
> problems appearing with at least some newer Celerons and
> Pentium III.

Should be using cpu_relax() I think. Its a polled busy loop so you want
other CPU threads to run if possible. Otherwise the code seems quite
logical depending how c4inmeml is defined.

Alan

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