netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: lan9303: Protect ALR operations with mutex

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Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2017 21:58:28 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Egil Hjelmeland <privat@...l-hjelmeland.no>
Cc:     vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: lan9303: Protect ALR operations with
 mutex

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:56:04PM +0100, Egil Hjelmeland wrote:
> ALR table operations are a sequence of related register operations which
> should be protected from concurrent access. The alr_cache should also be
> protected. Add alr_mutex doing that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Egil Hjelmeland <privat@...l-hjelmeland.no>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew