From: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com>
To: gregkh@suse.de, cota@braap.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] staging: vme: make [alloc|free]_consistent bridge specific
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:05:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E36B2AA.9060300@ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110801140036.GA9670@becoht-mvanga>
On 01/08/11 15:00, Manohar Vanga wrote:
> Hi Martyn,
>
>>> Make PCI dependent functions ([alloc|free]_consistent() in
>>> 'vme.c') bridge specific. By removing the dependency of the
>>> VME bridge framework on PCI, this patch allows for addition of
>>> non-PCI based VME bridges.
>>>
>>
>> I like the approach, I think I agree with Dan, I'd rather see the locking
>> inside the function for now.
>
> Just noticed that the locking that Dan was referring to and the one you agree
> with in the previous patch ([PATCH 2/8] staging: vme: allow explicit assignment
> of bus numbers) and not this one. Which one are you referring to here?
>
Whoops. Sorry, Dan's comment about the error printing, not the locking.
Martyn
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-01 10:20 [PATCH 0/8] VME Driver Fixes Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 10:20 ` [PATCH 1/8] staging: vme_user: change kmalloc+memset to kzalloc Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 10:52 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-10 7:44 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-01 10:20 ` [PATCH 2/8] staging: vme: allow explicit assignment of bus numbers Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 11:10 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-08-01 12:12 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 13:06 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-01 14:31 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 15:50 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-02 11:54 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-02 14:57 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-03 8:54 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-04 9:16 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 10:20 ` [PATCH 3/8] staging: vme: make [alloc|free]_consistent bridge specific Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 11:10 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-08-01 12:24 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 13:41 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-01 13:40 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 14:00 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 14:05 ` Martyn Welch [this message]
2011-08-01 10:20 ` [PATCH 4/8] staging: vme: keep track of registered buses Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 10:20 ` [PATCH 5/8] staging: vme: add functions for bridge module refcounting Manohar Vanga
2011-08-03 14:04 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-03 14:06 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-03 15:23 ` Emilio G. Cota
2011-08-04 7:23 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-04 16:34 ` Emilio G. Cota
2011-08-05 7:45 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-05 9:04 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-05 9:24 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-05 17:47 ` Emilio G. Cota
2011-08-08 8:01 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-08 9:14 ` Emilio G. Cota
2011-08-08 9:42 ` Martyn Welch
[not found] ` <4E3FABDA.8080204@ge.com>
[not found] ` <20110808101140.GA21300@flamenco.cs.columbia.edu>
2011-08-08 11:06 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-08 17:22 ` Emilio G. Cota
2011-08-08 18:04 ` Greg KH
2011-08-09 9:00 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-09 19:19 ` Emilio G. Cota
2011-08-10 7:39 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-10 9:15 ` Emilio G. Cota
2011-08-10 9:50 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-10 18:35 ` Emilio G. Cota
2011-08-09 13:24 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-09 14:26 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-09 14:35 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-09 15:05 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-09 18:49 ` Emilio G. Cota
2011-08-10 6:52 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 10:20 ` [PATCH 6/8] staging: vme: rename *_slot_get to *_get_slot Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 12:29 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-01 12:31 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-09 15:18 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-09 15:25 ` Greg KH
2011-08-09 15:32 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 10:20 ` [PATCH 7/8] staging: vme: add struct vme_dev for VME devices Manohar Vanga
2011-08-09 15:19 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-01 10:20 ` [PATCH 8/8] staging: vme: make match() driver specific to improve non-VME64x support Manohar Vanga
2011-08-03 9:16 ` Martyn Welch
2011-08-03 12:18 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-01 14:29 ` [PATCH 0/8] VME Driver Fixes Martyn Welch
2011-08-01 14:32 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-08-23 22:07 ` Greg KH
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