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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net, 12o3l@tiscali.nl,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.25-git] spi_mpc83xx much improved driver
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:55:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804301555.34110.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080430154631.b86797de.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +     spin_lock_irq(&mpc83xx_spi->lock);
> 
> irq-safe.
> 
> > ...
> >
> > +     spin_lock(&mpc83xx_spi->lock);
> 
> not irq-safe.
> 
> Deliberate?

That latter one is inside an #if 0/#endif block, so it won't matter.
The #if 0 block bothered me.  Maybe Joakim can remove it.

(By the way, I'd feel safer about this patch if there were an
ack or two from more PPC folk...)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-30 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-30 22:37 [patch 2.6.25-git] spi_mpc83xx much improved driver David Brownell
2008-04-30 22:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-30 22:55   ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-05-01 10:42     ` Joakim Tjernlund

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