netdev - Re: via velocity trivial patch

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Message-ID: <20090513223249.GB4118@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 May 2009 00:32:49 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Radek Podgorny <radek@...gorny.cz>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: via velocity trivial patch

Radek Podgorny <radek@...gorny.cz> :
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> so I've tried to study the source a bit more and don't really get some things.
> Why is there a mac_write_isr() in the IRQ handling routine? Isn't ISR supposed
> to be read-only? Even if not, why does it write the exact same value as it has
> read just moments ago?

It clears the bits.

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Ueimor
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