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From: Josh Cartwright <joshc@codeaurora.org>
To: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn@kryo.se>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com>, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
	"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 4/7] hwspinlock/core: add common OF helpers
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:23:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140314152304.GS18529@joshc.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK=WgbYS+eJSTBXF=OeWjuL6iSbH+Y1RYewARKh9yAXHKKZ_cA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 03:12:26PM +0200, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Bjorn Andersson <bjorn@kryo.se> wrote:
> > When introducing the ability to reference a hwspin lock via a phandle
> > in device tree it makes a big difference to be able to differ between
> > the case of "initialization failed" or "device not yet probed"; so
> > that the client knows if it should fail or retry later.
> 
> I'm not convinced.
> 
> The only advantage this brings is to avoid retrying in case a fatal
> error has occurred. Such fatal errors are extremely rare, and when
> they show up - extremely painful, and I suspect that optimizing them
> wouldn't be a big win.

So, are you suggesting that because fatal errors should be "extremely
rare", a consuming driver should just assume that if NULL is returned
from a hwspin_lock_request*() function that it was the "device not yet
probed" case that was hit?

Note that having the consumer/hwspinlock device relationship modeled in
devicetree introduces more potential failure cases...

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-14 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-14  0:19 [PATCHv4 0/7] omap hwspinlock dt support Suman Anna
2014-01-14  0:19 ` [PATCHv4 1/7] Documentation: dt: add common bindings for hwspinlock Suman Anna
2014-01-14  0:19 ` [PATCHv4 2/7] Documentation: dt: add the omap hwspinlock bindings document Suman Anna
2014-01-14  0:19 ` [PATCHv4 3/7] hwspinlock/core: maintain a list of registered hwspinlock banks Suman Anna
2014-01-14  0:19 ` [PATCHv4 4/7] hwspinlock/core: add common OF helpers Suman Anna
2014-02-07 22:49   ` Bjorn Andersson
2014-02-10 19:14     ` Suman Anna
2014-03-02  5:14       ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2014-03-02 20:19         ` Bjorn Andersson
2014-03-03 18:46           ` Suman Anna
     [not found]           ` <CAJAp7Ohf43hbKatCwS5Y1+OfEkJYWOkuhZhW-E_=t_9mfM+UaA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-04 17:38             ` Suman Anna
     [not found]               ` <53160F8F.9060405-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-13 16:43                 ` Josh Cartwright
2014-03-14  8:58                 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2014-03-14 13:12           ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2014-03-14 15:23             ` Josh Cartwright [this message]
2014-03-15 17:32               ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2014-09-26 14:40   ` Bjorn Andersson
2014-09-26 16:25     ` Suman Anna
     [not found]       ` <5425938C.6070007-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-06  9:44         ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
     [not found]           ` <CAK=WgbYf3++K4MVXW_n4zj-8fMEee61XG5+r40cW=trapRtJ7w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-06 18:24             ` Suman Anna
     [not found]               ` <545BBCCB.7030107-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-07  5:06                 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2014-01-14  0:19 ` [PATCHv4 6/7] hwspinlock/omap: enable module before reading SYSSTATUS register Suman Anna
2014-01-14 13:10   ` Felipe Balbi
2014-01-14 14:04     ` Felipe Balbi
     [not found]       ` <20140114140440.GA15785-HgARHv6XitL9zxVx7UNMDg@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-14 16:56         ` Anna, Suman
2014-01-15 23:46           ` Anna, Suman
2014-01-15 23:36   ` [UPDATED PATCHv4 " Suman Anna
2014-01-14  0:19 ` [PATCHv4 7/7] hwspinlock/omap: enable build for AM33xx, AM43xx & DRA7xx Suman Anna
2014-01-14 13:12   ` Felipe Balbi
2014-01-14 16:51     ` Anna, Suman
2014-01-14 17:29       ` Felipe Balbi
2014-01-14 18:36         ` Anna, Suman
2014-01-14 13:12 ` [PATCHv4 0/7] omap hwspinlock dt support Felipe Balbi
     [not found] ` <1389658764-39199-1-git-send-email-s-anna-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-14  0:19   ` [PATCHv4 5/7] hwspinlock/omap: add support for dt nodes Suman Anna
2014-02-10 19:27   ` [PATCHv4 0/7] omap hwspinlock dt support Suman Anna
2014-02-24 18:14     ` Suman Anna
     [not found]       ` <530B8C00.8020001-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-14 20:10         ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
     [not found]           ` <CAK=WgbZp_RQPCeZJyMRkNTQxaJsnGZ3DnjhSkYYR_-PAE_Kp4g-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-14 23:58             ` Suman Anna
2014-03-17 14:23               ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
     [not found]                 ` <CAK=WgbZCzA7JovSxnysHCQRZZWc3Z2j3AS8ekpM9fOZ160rmCA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-17 19:10                   ` Suman Anna
     [not found]                     ` <532748B7.1080606-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-17 19:47                       ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2014-03-17 23:46                         ` Suman Anna
     [not found]                           ` <53278950.5030905-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-18 13:35                             ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2014-03-31 22:45                               ` Suman Anna

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