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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2006, 2007, 2008 QLogic Corporation. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This software is available to you under a choice of one of two
+ * licenses. You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the GNU
+ * General Public License (GPL) Version 2, available from the file
+ * COPYING in the main directory of this source tree, or the
+ * OpenIB.org BSD license below:
+ *
+ * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or
+ * without modification, are permitted provided that the following
+ * conditions are met:
+ *
+ * - Redistributions of source code must retain the above
+ * copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
+ * disclaimer.
+ *
+ * - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
+ * copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
+ * disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
+ * provided with the distribution.
+ *
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+ * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+ * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+ * NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
+ * BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
+ * ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
+ * CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+ * SOFTWARE.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * This file is conditionally built on PowerPC only. Otherwise weak symbol
+ * versions of the functions exported from here are used.
+ */
+
+#include "qib.h"
+
+/**
+ * qib_enable_wc - enable write combining for MMIO writes to the device
+ * @dd: qlogic_ib device
+ *
+ * Nothing to do on PowerPC, so just return without error.
+ */
+int qib_enable_wc(struct qib_devdata *dd)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * qib_unordered_wc - indicate whether write combining is unordered
+ *
+ * Because our performance depends on our ability to do write
+ * combining mmio writes in the most efficient way, we need to
+ * know if we are on a processor that may reorder stores when
+ * write combining.
+ */
+int qib_unordered_wc(void)
+{
+ return 1;
+}