From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arend van Spriel Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] i2c: iproc: Add Broadcom iProc I2C Driver Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 13:13:30 +0100 Message-ID: <54BBA36A.10608@broadcom.com> References: <1421451737-7107-1-git-send-email-rjui@broadcom.com> <1421451737-7107-3-git-send-email-rjui@broadcom.com> <54BB795C.6040402@broadcom.com> <20150118094741.GE22880@pengutronix.de> <20150118110658.GA1113@katana> <20150118111759.GG22880@pengutronix.de> <54BB9D2B.20408@broadcom.com> <20150118115650.GH22880@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150118115650.GH22880-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_Kleine-K=F6nig?= Cc: Mark Rutland , devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Ian Campbell , Florian Fainelli , Russell King , Pawel Moll , Scott Branden , Wolfram Sang , Ray Jui , Christian Daudt , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Matt Porter , Rob Herring , bcm-kernel-feedback-list-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Kumar Gala , Grant Likely , linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 01/18/15 12:56, Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:46:51PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> On 01/18/15 12:17, Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig wrote: >>> Hello Wolfram, >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:06:58PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: >>>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:47:41AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig wrote= : >>>>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:14:04AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote: >>>>>> On 01/17/15 00:42, Ray Jui wrote: >>>>>>> + complete_all(&iproc_i2c->done); >>>>>> >>>>>> Looking over this code it seems to me there is always a single >>>>>> process waiting for iproc_i2c->done to complete. So using comple= te() >>>>>> here would suffice. >>>>> Yeah, there is always only a single thread waiting. That means bo= th >>>>> complete and complete_all are suitable. AFAIK there is no reason = to pick >>>>> one over the other in this case. >>>> >>>> Clarity? >>> And which do you consider more clear? complete_all might result in = the >>> question: "Is there>1 waiter?" and complete might yield to "What ab= out >>> the other waiters?". If you already know there is only one, both ar= e on >>> par on clarity. Might only be me?! I don't care much. >> >> Maybe it is me, but it is not about questions but it is about >> implicit statements that the code makes (or reader derives from it). >> When using complete_all you indicate to the reader "there can be >> more than one waiter". When using complete it indicates "there is >> only one waiter". If those statements are not true that is a code > No, complete works just fine in the presence of>1 waiter. It just wak= es > a single waiter and all others continue to wait. Yes. Agree. > That is, for single-waiter situations there is no semantic difference > between complete and complete_all. But there is a difference for > multi-waiter queues. Indeed. > I think this is just a matter of your POV in the single-waiter > situation: complete might be intuitive because you just completed a > single task and complete_all might be intuitive because it signals > "I'm completely done, there is noone waiting for me any more.". Ok. Let's leave it to the author's intuition or to say it differently=20 "sorry for the noise" ;-) Regards, Arend > Best regards > Uwe > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" i= n the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html