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From: "Hemanth V" <hemanthv@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] misc : ROHM BH1780GLI Ambient light sensor Driver
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 19:32:50 +0530
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Mack" <daniel@caiaq.de>
To: "Hemanth V" <hemanthv@ti.com>
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Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] misc : ROHM BH1780GLI Ambient light sensor Driver


> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 06:10:00PM +0530, Hemanth V wrote:
>> >On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 05:05:50PM +0530, Hemanth V wrote:
>> >>+ mutex_lock(&ddata->lock);
>> >>+
>> >>+ error = bh1780_write(ddata, BH1780_REG_CONTROL, val, "CONTROL");
>> >>+ if (error < 0) {
>> >>+ mutex_unlock(&ddata->lock);
>> >>+ return error;
>> >>+ }
>> >>+
>> >>+ msleep(BH1780_PON_DELAY);
>> >
>> >Hmm, what do you wait for here?
>>
>> Settling time delay required before lux read out
>
> I thought so, but in fact you're just delaying the next two lines by
> that:
>
>> >>+ ddata->power_state = val;
>> >>+ mutex_unlock(&ddata->lock);
>
> ... which doesn't make sense to me.
>
> I can believe there is need to wait for the value to settle, but I think
> it's the wrong place where you're doing it currently.
>

I could move it one line down,  but not really release the mutex.
Which other place would you suggest.