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

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Date:	Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:36:53 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>
Cc:	mlindner@...vell.com, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sky2: Correct mistakenly switched read/write sequence

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

> 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>

You are both right. David is correct in that the original code here
was quite different and was doing save/restore of irq mask.
That changed as driver evolved to only bring up IRQ if device was
brought up. At which point the read of irq mask was a left over call.

Lino is correct, it makes sense to do read after write to ensure PCI posting.
So I agree with the patch, but would like the commit message changed
slightly.
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