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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>,
	Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>, Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan.cox@intel.com>,
	Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] gpiolib: Allow GPIO chips to request their own GPIOs
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:48:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140227094802.GI5018@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1566118.4zS0BNjL3A@vostro.rjw.lan>

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 02:47:58PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Sounds good. Only thing I'm not sure about is the fact that
> > __gpiod_request() releases the lock when it calls chip driver callbacks
> > (and takes it back of course). Is that acceptable practice to take the lock
> > outside of a function and release it inside for a while?
> 
> Yes, you can do that.
> 
> There even are sparse annotations for that: __releases() and __acquires()
> (__rpm_callback() in drivers/base/power/runtime.c uses them among other things).

Ah, good to know. Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-27  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-24 16:00 [PATCH 0/6] gpio / ACPI: Rework ACPI GPIO events and add support for operation regions Mika Westerberg
2014-02-24 16:00 ` [PATCH 1/6] gpiolib: Allow GPIO chips to request their own GPIOs Mika Westerberg
2014-02-25 14:10   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-02-26  9:05     ` Mika Westerberg
2014-02-26 13:47       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-02-27  9:48         ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2014-03-05  2:49   ` Linus Walleij
2014-03-05 12:05     ` Mika Westerberg
2014-03-05 13:07       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-03-06  2:16     ` Alexandre Courbot
2014-02-24 16:00 ` [PATCH 2/6] gpio / ACPI: Allocate ACPI specific data directly in acpi_gpiochip_add() Mika Westerberg
2014-02-25 14:21   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-02-26  9:08     ` Mika Westerberg
2014-02-24 16:00 ` [PATCH 3/6] gpio / ACPI: Rename acpi_gpio_evt_pin to acpi_gpio_event Mika Westerberg
2014-02-25 14:23   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-02-26  9:09     ` Mika Westerberg
2014-02-24 16:00 ` [PATCH 4/6] gpio / ACPI: Embed events list directly into struct acpi_gpio_chip Mika Westerberg
2014-02-25 14:26   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-02-26  9:10     ` Mika Westerberg
2014-02-24 16:00 ` [PATCH 5/6] gpio / ACPI: Rework ACPI GPIO event handling Mika Westerberg
2014-02-25 14:44   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-02-26  9:10     ` Mika Westerberg
2014-02-24 16:00 ` [PATCH 6/6] gpio / ACPI: Add support for ACPI GPIO operation regions Mika Westerberg
2014-02-25 14:55   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-02-26  9:11     ` Mika Westerberg

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