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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds: Fix locking for WM8350
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:14:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081115191414.GA12907@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081115185119.GA19900@elf.ucw.cz>

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:51:20PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sat 2008-11-15 17:50:50, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Yes, that'd be safer though I'd be surprised to see systems that could
> > trigger it.

> Yes, they are uncommon. They exist; SPARC, IIRC. Plus you need

Exceptionally uncommon with the systems the WM8350 gets used with -
it's a primary PMIC for mobile devices so anything other than
uniprocessor ARM would be surprising.

> barriers on anything SMP... Just use atomic_t.

I was intending to do so next time I spin the patch.  Andrew had some
other comments and I don't have any test systems when I'm not in the
office anyway.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-15 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-13 12:39 [PATCH] leds: Add WM8350 LED driver Mark Brown
2008-11-13 14:57 ` [PATCH] leds: Fix locking for WM8350 Mark Brown
2008-11-15 17:31   ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-15 17:50     ` Mark Brown
2008-11-15 18:51       ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-15 19:14         ` Mark Brown [this message]
2008-11-17 15:33           ` Richard Purdie
2008-11-17 23:05             ` Mark Brown
2008-11-18  8:33             ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-14 23:19 ` [PATCH] leds: Add WM8350 LED driver Andrew Morton
2008-11-17 11:57   ` Mark Brown
2008-11-15 17:29 ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-15 17:43   ` Mark Brown

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