netdev - Re: [PATCH] typhoon: fix incorrect use of smp

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Message-Id: <20100305.140147.216356399.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:01:47 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dave@...dillows.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] typhoon: fix incorrect use of smp_wmb()

From: David Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:37:16 -0500

> The typhoon driver was incorrectly using smp_wmb() to order memory
> accesses against IO to the NIC in a few instances. Use wmb() instead,
> which is required to actually order between memory types.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>

Applied.
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