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From: Daniel Santos <danielfsantos-fOdFMYwuEsI@public.gmane.org>
Cc: spi-devel-general-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: New driver for MCP2210 (USB to SPI bridge w/GPIO)
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:47:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5169EE91.9080308@att.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5169DE3F.5030909-fOdFMYwuEsI@public.gmane.org>


>   3. When my driver is called via the functions exported in the struct
>      spi_master after I register it with spi_register_master(), I'm
>      presuming these will never be in an interrupt context (soft or
>      hard).  Is that correct?  (I'm planning on using simple mutexes for
>      locking.)

Correction, I'll be calling transfer_one_message() instead of 
transfer(), as I now see that this function is depreciated (thanks to 
the output in dmesg).  And the docs say that I can sleep in these 
functions, so I presume that mutex_(un)lock is fine.

Daniel

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       reply	other threads:[~2013-04-13 23:47 UTC|newest]

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2013-04-13 23:47   ` Daniel Santos [this message]
2013-04-14  4:35   ` New driver for MCP2210 (USB to SPI bridge w/GPIO) Daniel Santos

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