linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] leds: Fix locking for WM8350

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Message-ID: <20081115175050.GB12466@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:50:50 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
Cc:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds: Fix locking for WM8350

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 06:31:10PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Unfortunately, now you write to value w/o locking -> races
> possible. Maybe you need to make value atomic_t?

Yes, that'd be safer though I'd be surprised to see systems that could
trigger it.
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