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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Albert Cranford <ac9410@attbi.com>
Cc: 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: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:18:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D851556.7070203@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0209151845330.7637-200000@home1

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


  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-15 23:14 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 [this message]
2002-09-15 23:26   ` Russell King
2002-09-15 23:31     ` Jeff Garzik

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