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From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:01:39 -0700

> The support for write combining in the kernel is not in a state where
> that makes any sense at the moment.

Please fix the generic code if it doesn't provide the facility
you need at the moment.  Don't shoe horn it into your driver
just to make up for that.