Re: [PATCH][RFC] asm-generic:remove calling flush_write_buffers()in dma_sync_*_for_cpu

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Mon Jun 29 2009 - 14:48:40 EST


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:22:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> As mentioned, the definition of flush_write_buffers() seems a little dodgy,
> I would feel much more comfortable with putting it into the architecture
> specific code or using one of the existing common barriers, since we already
> have so many of them.

Yeah true. We should remove this function if we see that it is not required.

Joerg

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