From: Fabien Marteau <fabien.marteau@armadeus.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org>,
Scott Moreau <oreaus@gmail.com>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: joystick: Adding Austria Microsystem AS5011 joystick driver (third version)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:55:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D276FB8.7030309@armadeus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110107195000.GD28875@core.coreip.homeip.net>
On 07/01/2011 20:50, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 08:42:37PM +0100, Fabien Marteau wrote:
>> On 04/01/2011 12:01, Trilok Soni wrote:
>>> Hi Fabien,
>>>
>>> On 1/4/2011 3:17 PM, Fabien Marteau wrote:
>>>> +
>>>> +static irqreturn_t as5011_int_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
>>>> +{
>>>> + struct as5011_platform_data *plat_dat = dev_id;
>>>> +
>>>> + mutex_lock(&plat_dat->update_lock);
>>>> + as5011_update_axes(plat_dat);
>>>> + mutex_unlock(&plat_dat->update_lock);
>>>
>>> Please explain this lock. Sorry if I have missed out your explanation in the earlier threads.
>>
>> If a second interruption occurs the first update must be finished before update again.
>
> The ISR handler will not be called simultaneously on several CPUs. What
> else can it race with?
>
Hum in fact nothing I thinks. I will delete it.
Thanks
Fabien
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-07 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-04 9:47 [PATCH] input: joystick: Adding Austria Microsystem AS5011 joystick driver (third version) Fabien Marteau
2011-01-04 11:01 ` Trilok Soni
2011-01-07 19:42 ` Fabien Marteau
2011-01-07 19:50 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-01-07 19:55 ` Fabien Marteau [this message]
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