Re: [PATCH] IBM Lanstreamer bugfixes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:43:48 +0000 (GMT)

> > Is this the best way to make sure the PCI cache is flushed for writes that
> > need to happen immediately? I don't see many other drivers doing it...
>
> Wouldn't creating a flush_and_writew() or similar be an idea here?

You can't write a generic function for it. The PCI rules are all quite
simple and well documented, unfortunately it a book nobody has 8)
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