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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Nicolas DET <nd@bplan-gmbh.de>,
	USB development list <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Patch for UHCI driver (from kernel 2.6.6).
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:12:17 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0406151710070.658-100000@ida.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40CF5D1B.6000302@pacbell.net>

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, David Brownell wrote:

> > 	... a write by either the device or the processor
> > 	can immediately be read by the processor or device 
> > 	without having to worry about caching effects.
> > 
> > This means that when you read _the data that was written_ you don't have 
> > to worry about caching effects.
> 
> It doesn't limit the "without having to worry" to just the bytes
> written.

It's hard to say exactly what it means because it's ungrammatical.  "A 
write ... can immediately be read..." -- what does it mean to read a 
write?

>  And the rest of that API spec doesn't even suggest that
> there might be an issue there.  I think you're trying to read
> things into that text that aren't there.

Maybe so.  It's not worth spending more time on this point, anyhow.

Alan Stern

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-15 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <40CE2E24.5060207@pacbell.net>
2004-06-15 16:35 ` Alan Stern
2004-06-15 17:08   ` David Brownell
2004-06-15 17:23     ` Duncan Sands
2004-06-15 19:35     ` Alan Stern
2004-06-15 20:33       ` David Brownell
2004-06-15 21:12         ` Alan Stern [this message]
2004-06-15 21:40   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski

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