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From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH LINUX v3 02/10] tty: xuartps: Use spinlock to serialize HW
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Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 12:05:27 -0500
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On 11/21/2015 09:59 PM, Soren Brinkmann wrote:
> Instead of disabling the IRQ, use the spin lock to serialize accesses to
> the HW. This protects the driver from interference of non-IRQ callbacks
> with each other and makes the driver more consistent in its
> serialization method.

Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>