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SubjectRe: [PATCH] IBM Lanstreamer bugfixes
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>   BTW, I don't know what PCI posting effects are...

Ok given

writel(foo, dev->reg);
udelay(5);
writel(bar, dev->reg);

The pci bridge is at liberty to delay the first write until the second or a
read from that device comes along (and wants to do so to merge bursts). It
tends to bite people

- When they do a write to clear the IRQ status and don't do
a read so they keep handling lots of phantom level triggered
interrupts.

- When there is a delay (reset is common) that has to be observed

- At the end of a DMA transfer when people unmap stuff early
and the "stop the DMA" command got delayed

Alan
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