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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] spidev: Do not use atomic bit operations when allocating minor
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:39:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YjtNJe4Pgp3WIwOa@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220323140215.2568-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

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On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 04:02:12PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> There is no need to use atomic bit operations when allocating a minor
> number since it's done under a mutex. Moreover, one of the operations
> that is in use is non-atomic anyway.

>  	if (status == 0) {
> -		set_bit(minor, minors);
> +		__set_bit(minor, minors);
>  		list_add(&spidev->device_entry, &device_list);

There's no *need* but the __ looks suspicious...  what's the upside
here?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-23 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-23 14:02 [PATCH v1 1/4] spidev: Do not use atomic bit operations when allocating minor Andy Shevchenko
2022-03-23 14:02 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] spidev: Convert BUILD_BUG_ON() to static_assert() Andy Shevchenko
2022-03-23 14:02 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] spidev: Replace ACPI specific code by device_get_match_data() Andy Shevchenko
2022-03-23 14:02 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] spidev: Replace OF specific code by device property API Andy Shevchenko
2022-03-23 16:39 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2022-03-23 17:22   ` [PATCH v1 1/4] spidev: Do not use atomic bit operations when allocating minor Andy Shevchenko
2022-03-23 19:06     ` Mark Brown
2022-03-24  9:24       ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-03-24 14:28         ` Mark Brown
2022-03-25 11:09           ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-03-26  1:29             ` Yury Norov
2022-03-25 12:44 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-03-25 13:26   ` Mark Brown
2022-03-25 13:44     ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-04-05  9:32 ` (subset) " Mark Brown

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