netdev - Re: sky2: Correct mistakenly switched read/write sequence

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Message-Id: <20121201.122701.2065141028797970034.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:27:01 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	LinoSanfilippo@....de
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, mlindner@...vell.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sky2: Correct mistakenly switched read/write sequence

From: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 13:42:39 +0100

> In sky2_all_down() the order of the read()/write() access to B0_IMSK seems to
> be mistakenly switched. The original intention was obviously to avoid PCI write
> posting.
> This patch fixes the order.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>

I would say that no such intention exists at all.

The read is there because a long time ago the result as used
to compute an 'imask' variable.

Please see commit:

commit d72ff8fa7f8b344382963721f842256825c4660b
Author: Mike McCormack <mikem@...g3k.org>
Date:   Thu May 13 06:12:51 2010 +0000

    sky2: Refactor down/up code out of sky2_restart()
    
    Code to bring down all sky2 interfaces and bring it up
    again can be reused in sky2_suspend and sky2_resume.
    
    Factor the code to bring the interfaces down into
    sky2_all_down and the up code into sky2_all_up.
    
    Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mikem@...g3k.org>
    Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

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