Re: [PATCH 2.6.13.1 1/1] CS5535 AUDIO ALSA driver

[jayakumar alsa <jayakumar.alsa@gmail.com>]

> > +static int __devinit snd_cs5535audio_probe(struct pci_dev *pci,
> > +                                     const struct pci_device_id *pci_id)
> > +{
> > +     static int dev;
> > +     snd_card_t *card;
> > +     cs5535audio_t *cs5535au;
> > +     int err;
> > +
> > +     if (dev >= SNDRV_CARDS)
> > +             return -ENODEV;
> > +     if (!enable[dev]) {
> > +             dev++;
> > +             return -ENOENT;
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     card = snd_card_new(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, 0);
> > +     if (card == NULL)
> > +             return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +     if ((err = snd_cs5535audio_create(card, pci, &cs5535au)) < 0) {
> > +             snd_card_free(card);
> > +             return err;
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     if ((err = snd_cs5535audio_mixer(cs5535au)) < 0) {
> > +             snd_card_free(card);
> > +             return err;
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     if ((err = snd_cs5535audio_pcm(cs5535au)) < 0) {
> > +             snd_card_free(card);
> > +             return err;
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     strcpy(card->driver, DRIVER_NAME);
> > +
> > +     strcpy(card->shortname, "CS5535 Audio");
> > +     sprintf(card->longname, "%s %s at 0x%lx, irq %i",
> > +             card->shortname, card->driver,
> > +             cs5535au->port, cs5535au->irq);
> > +
> > +     if ((err = snd_card_register(card)) < 0) {
> > +             snd_card_free(card);
> > +             return err;
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     pci_set_drvdata(pci, card);
> > +     dev++;
> > +     return 0;
> > +}
> 
> Ditto.
> 
> The handling of `dev' is racy ;)

I took a quick look at the dev handling. 

% egrep -B20 "dev\+\+" $lintree/sound/pci/*.c
<snip>
--
../azt3328.c-           return -ENODEV;
../azt3328.c-   if (!enable[dev]) {
../azt3328.c:           dev++;
--
../azt3328.c-
../azt3328.c-   pci_set_drvdata(pci, card);
../azt3328.c:   dev++;
--
../cmipci.c-            return -ENODEV;
../cmipci.c-    if (! enable[dev]) {
../cmipci.c:            dev++;
--
../cmipci.c-    }
../cmipci.c-    pci_set_drvdata(pci, card);
../cmipci.c:    dev++;
--
<snip>

So I think everyone is doing the same thing. I think probe is called
from driver_probe_device through device_add and in this case that's
from pci_bus_add_device/s from pci_do_scan_bus. I think the device
probe functions are therefore called serially and there is no risk of
a race condition. I hope that's right.

Thanks,
jk