Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hrm... I'm not sure I like the io_* name, I think it's even more > confusing, people will never know when to use what ...
I'd've thought it more obvious, but given there are several types of I/O, some of which might require different barriering to others, I can see your point. However, I think mb() unadorned is also confusing. > Maybe we should dig out again my attempt at properly defining semantics > of IO accessors and related barriers and extend it to include CPU vs. > DMA barriers. That could be useful. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
