Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] io: define several IO & PIO barrier types for the asm-generic version

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Apr 05 2018 - 07:58:22 EST


On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:48 PM, <okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2018-04-05 03:00, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

>> The other four patches look perfect already. What's the timing we need
>> for
>> these patches? Are they 4.18 material, or do we need them in 4.17 and
>> stable kernels to work around known bugs?
>
>
> I was hoping to get all arch stuff in for 4.17.
>
> Driver developers started removing redundant wmb().

Ok, so 4.17 but no stable backports then.

Arnd