From: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds-pca955x: Fix race condition while setting brightness on several LEDs
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 09:32:21 +0200
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Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2012, 14:40:16 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> On Wed,  8 Feb 2012 13:44:08 +0100
> 
> Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> wrote:
> > When issuing the following command:
> > for I in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
> > 
> >   echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/pca955x\:${I}/brightness;
> > 
> > done
> > It is possible that all the pca955x_read_ls calls are done sequentially
> > before any pca955x_write_ls call is done. This updates the LS only to the
> > last LED update in its set.
> > Fix this by using a global lock for the pca995x device during
> > pca955x_led_work.
> 
> There's the bugfix.
> 
> > Also used a struct for shared data bewteen all LEDs.
> 
> And there's an apparently unrelated change whcih created a *lot* of
> noise in the patch.  It would be good to separate these things, with
> the bugfix being the first change.

This doesn't work. A problem was that each LED had it's own lock used upon 
scheduling it's own workqueue. No synchronization betwen all LEDs on this 
chip.

> > ...
> > 
> > -static inline u8 pca955x_ledsel(u8 oldval, int led_num, int state)
> > +static inline u8 pca955x_ledel(u8 oldval, int led_num, int state)
> 
> Why was this function renamed, and what does "ledel" mean?

Whoops, my mistake. This wasn't intended. I will gladly send a new patch with 
the last function name change reverted. Unless someone objects against the 
synchronizaton.

Regards,
Alexander
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