[PATCH 1/3] i2c: append hardware lock with bus lock

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Apr 28 10:37:24 EDT 2011


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 04:16:25PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Are you suggesting that the hardware lock wouldn't mind being taken
> twice by the AP side? If it is the case, then indeed the software mutex
> is still needed to prevent it from happening.
> 
> That being said... I guess that avoiding a priority inversion is a good
> enough reason to always take the rt_mutex, regardless of the hardware
> lock implementation.
> 
> So, this patch is
> 
> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org>
> 
> I guess it makes more sense for me to let Ben apply it, as the other
> two patches in the series are for him too. This will avoid a dependency
> between our trees.

Only change I'd suggest is passing adapter to the hardware_lock/unlock
methods.  Having no arguments what so ever in generic code for this kind
of stuff looks rather strange and limiting.



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