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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 15:04:27 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] i2c: rcar: remove spinlock
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To: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>, Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>, Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@gmail.com>

Hello.

On 11/12/2015 5:31 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote:

> From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
>
> After making sure to reinit the HW and clear interrupts in the timeout
> case, we know that interrupts are always disabled in the sections
> protected by the spinlock.

    What about SMP? Spinlocks are mostly necessary for the SMP support, their 
tole isn't limited to disabling interrupts...

> Thus, we can simply remove it which is a
> preparation for further refactoring. While here, rename the timeout
> variable to time_left which is way more readable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>

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MBR, Sergei