From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>,
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/8] watchdog: at91rm9200: use the regmap from mfd
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:08:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150112140836.GL2447@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54B1CE58.4040407@roeck-us.net>
On 10/01/2015 at 17:14:00 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote :
> Not sure I understand what my comment has to do with 'parent'.
>
> The fact that the code checks if it has already been instantiated
> suggests that the original author of the driver was concerned about
> that case. Since you did not remove that check I have to assume that
> this can still happen. If so, the second instantiation attempt will
> overwrite regmap_st, since that variable is written prior to checking
> for the dual instantiation.
>
I'll move the regmap_st assignment after the check. But I really believe
it will never be probed more than once.
--
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-12 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-09 9:51 [PATCH v2 0/8] Atmel System Timer cleanups Alexandre Belloni
2015-01-09 9:51 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] ARM: at91/dt: declare atmel,at91rm9200-st as a syscon Alexandre Belloni
2015-01-09 9:51 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] mfd: Add atmel-st driver Alexandre Belloni
2015-01-09 9:51 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] watchdog: at91rm9200: use the regmap from mfd Alexandre Belloni
2015-01-10 0:39 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-10 18:41 ` Alexandre Belloni
2015-01-11 1:14 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-12 14:08 ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2015-01-09 9:51 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] ARM: at91: time: move the system timer driver to drivers/clocksource Alexandre Belloni
2015-01-09 9:51 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] ARM: at91: move the restart function to the system timer driver Alexandre Belloni
2015-01-09 9:51 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] clocksource: atmel-st: properly initialize driver Alexandre Belloni
2015-01-09 9:51 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] clocksource: atmel-st: use syscon/regmap Alexandre Belloni
2015-01-09 9:51 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] ARM: at91: remove useless include Alexandre Belloni
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