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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/15] qd65xx: fix deadlock on error handling
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:19:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4702C3D9.6040606@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710030015.44586.bzolnier@gmail.com>

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

ACK everything else (that I snipped)...

> @@ -303,6 +281,7 @@ static void qd6580_set_pio_mode(ide_driv
>  
>  static int __init qd_testreg(int port)
>  {
> +	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(qd65xx_lock);
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	u8 savereg, readreg;

At this point, the lock is largely pointless, isn't it?

Seems like you might as well use local_irq_save/restore.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-02 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-01 21:33 [PATCH 3/15] qd65xx: fix deadlock on error handling Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-10-02 12:59 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-10-02 13:04   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-02 22:15     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-10-02 22:19       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-10-03 22:41         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-10-03 22:51           ` Jeff Garzik

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