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From: xerofoify@gmail.com (nick)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Weird/Unneeded call to msleep in exynos_mipi_dsi_wr_data in exynos_mipi_dsi_common.c
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 09:08:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5492DFC5.4060202@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5492DF0D.3080607@ti.com>



On 2014-12-18 09:05 AM, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On 18/12/14 15:48, nick wrote:
>> Lucas,
>> That's fair do you known of anyone who does have the hardware so we can test my patch. If you do then we can get this fixed rather
>> easily.
>> Cheers Nick 
>>
>> On 2014-12-18 08:39 AM, Lucas Stach wrote:
>>> Am Donnerstag, den 18.12.2014, 08:35 -0500 schrieb nick:
>>>> Krzysztof,
>>>> If we look at the code for this function, it already is handling the data correctly. In addition  the locks 
>>>> seem to be better protection then msleep. Further more is no reason for this delay as we are neither resetting 
>>>> the hardware or waiting for the hardware here so why is it needed? I don't have Exynos based hardware lying
>>>> around through to test it.
>>>
>>> If you can't test it, don't touch it. It's that simple.
> 
> There seems to be multiple msleep(20)s in exynos_mipi_dsi_common.c, a
> few with /* FIXME */ and a few without any comments. Looks like bad (but
> relatively harmless) code to me, but as Lucas said, if you can't test
> it, don't touch it.
> 
>  Tomi
> 
> 
Tomi,
That is totally fair, sorry for wasting your time :(. I was just trying to help out.
Cheers Nick 

      reply	other threads:[~2014-12-18 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-17 22:57 Weird/Unneeded call to msleep in exynos_mipi_dsi_wr_data in exynos_mipi_dsi_common.c nick
2014-12-18 10:26 ` Krzysztof Kozłowski
2014-12-18 13:35   ` nick
2014-12-18 13:39     ` Lucas Stach
2014-12-18 13:48       ` nick
2014-12-18 14:05         ` Tomi Valkeinen
2014-12-18 14:08           ` nick [this message]

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