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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Albert Cranford <ac9410@attbi.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 9/9]Four new i2c drivers and __init/__exit cleanup to i2c
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:26:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020916002619.D30390@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D851556.7070203@mandrakesoft.com>; from jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com on Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 07:18:46PM -0400

On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 07:18:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Albert Cranford wrote:
> > --- linux/drivers/i2c/i2c-elektor.c.orig	2002-09-14 22:10:45.000000000 -0400
> > +++ linux-2.5.34/drivers/i2c/i2c-elektor.c	2002-09-15 01:18:55.000000000 -0400
> > @@ -125,12 +125,12 @@
> >  	int timeout = 2;
> >  
> >  	if (irq > 0) {
> > -		cli();
> > +		local_irq_disable();
> >  		if (pcf_pending == 0) {
> >  			interruptible_sleep_on_timeout(&pcf_wait, timeout*HZ );
> >  		} else
> >  			pcf_pending = 0;
> > -		sti();
> > +		local_irq_enable();
> >  	} else {
> >  		udelay(100);
> >  	}
> 
> 
> 
> this is _not_ the way to fix...   use a proper spinlock

You can't hold a spinlock and sleep though, was one of my points back
in August.  (Albert submitted a patch with all cli()/sti() converted
to spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_unlock_irqrestore().)

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-15 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-15 22:46 [patch 9/9]Four new i2c drivers and __init/__exit cleanup to i2c Albert Cranford
2002-09-15 23:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-15 23:26   ` Russell King [this message]
2002-09-15 23:31     ` Jeff Garzik

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