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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Cc: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PHYLIB: Locking fixes for PHY I/O potentially sleeping
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:43:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <479E76A2.8020304@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6D762C47-9C9C-422E-A80E-CC418F624B05@freescale.com>

Andy Fleming wrote:
> Jeff, Dave, any chance we can get this one in for 2.6.25?  It will allow 
> a number of other drivers to start using PHY Lib.
> I'm sure Nate can resend if needed.
> 
> On Jan 3, 2008, at 17:36, Nate Case wrote:
> 
>> PHY read/write functions can potentially sleep (e.g., a PHY accessed
>> via I2C).  The following changes were made to account for this:
>>
>>     * Change spin locks to mutex locks
>>     * Add a BUG_ON() to phy_read() phy_write() to warn against
>>       calling them from an interrupt context.
>>     * Use work queue for PHY state machine handling since
>>       it can potentially sleep
>>     * Change phydev lock from spinlock to mutex
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com>

don't see it in my queue, so please resend.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-29  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-03 23:36 [PATCH] PHYLIB: Locking fixes for PHY I/O potentially sleeping Nate Case
2008-01-17 21:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-21 20:05 ` Andy Fleming
2008-01-22 18:49 ` David Hollis
2008-01-29  0:29 ` Andy Fleming
2008-01-29  0:32   ` David Miller
2008-01-29  0:43   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-01-29 16:05     ` Nate Case
2008-01-29 20:12       ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-01-30  8:48       ` Jeff Garzik

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