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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:43:14 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com> CC: Nate Case <ncase@...-inc.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] PHYLIB: Locking fixes for PHY I/O potentially sleeping 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@...-inc.com> don't see it in my queue, so please resend. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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