linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5 v4] usb: pci-quirks: Protect the I/O port pair of SB800

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Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:36:06 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@...hu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5 v4] usb: pci-quirks: Protect the I/O port pair of
 SB800

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:34:20AM +0200, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> 2017-06-22 15:21 keltezéssel, Zoltán Böszörményi írta:
> > This patch uses the previously introduced macro called
> > request_declared_muxed_region() to synchronize access to
> > the I/O port pair 0xcd6 / 0xcd7 on SB800.
> > 
> > These I/O ports are also used by i2c-piix4 and sp5100_tco,
> > so synchronization is necessary. The other drivers will also
> > be modified to use the new macro in subsequest patched.
> > 
> > v1: Started with a common mutex in a C source file.
> > 
> > v2: Declared the common mutex in drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c
> >      instead of in a common C file.
> > 
> > v3: Switched to using the new request_declared_muxed_region
> >      macro.
> > 
> > v4: Fixed checkpatch.pl warnings and use the new
> >      release_declared_region() macro.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Zoltán Böszörményi <zboszor@...hu>

Why are you responding to your own patches?

You do know this is the middle of the merge window, and we can't do
anything here with patches, right?

thanks,

greg k-h