[PATCH 3.18 3/7] b43: flush some writes on Broadcom MIPS SoCs

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 31 13:34:57 PDT 2014


On 31 July 2014 22:25, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> +static inline void b43_write16f(struct b43_wldev *dev, u16 offset, u16 value)
>> +{
>> +       b43_write16(dev, offset, value);
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_BCM47XX) || defined(CONFIG_BCM63XX)
>> +       b43_read16(dev, offset);
>> +#endif
>> +}
>
> How about you leave the calls to b43_write16() to avoid missing call
> sites, but you re-define it for BCM47XX and BCM63XX? Or, you could
> introduce a __b43_write16() that defaults to dev->dev->write16 in the
> normal case, and gets called by b43_write16() such that we you'd get:

I didn't mean (and I didn't) enable flushing for all writes. Only
these touching specific registers. I don't think we need to flush
every single write.



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