Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753899Ab1EKCyZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2011 22:54:25 -0400 Received: from imr4.ericy.com ([198.24.6.8]:56237 "EHLO imr4.ericy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753540Ab1EKCyY (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2011 22:54:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 19:53:38 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: Nat Gurumoorthy CC: Jean Delvare , Wim Van Sebroeck , "lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "mikew@google.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 2/2] Use "request_muxed_region" in it87 hwmon drivers Message-ID: <20110511025338.GB4051@ericsson.com> References: <1304966644-19798-1-git-send-email-natg@google.com> <1304966731-19896-1-git-send-email-natg@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1304966731-19896-1-git-send-email-natg@google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 17 On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 02:45:31PM -0400, Nat Gurumoorthy wrote: > 02 - Chages to hwmon it87 driver to use "request_muxed_region" > Serialize access to the hardware by using "request_muxed_region" macro defined > by Alan Cox. Call to this macro will hold off the requestor if the resource is > currently busy. "superio_enter" will return an error if call to > "request_muxed_region" fails. Rest of the code change is to ripple an error > return from superio_enter to the top level. > > Signed-off-by: Nat Gurumoorthy Acked-by: Guenter Roeck -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/