linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v8] tpm_tis: verify interrupt during init

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Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:01:18 +0200
From:	Peter Hüwe <PeterHuewe@....de>
To:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
Cc:	Scot Doyle <lkml14@...tdoyle.com>,
	Ashley Lai <ashley@...leylai.com>,
	Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@...horst.net>,
	Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@...gle.com>,
	tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v8] tpm_tis: verify interrupt during init

Am Montag, 22. September 2014, 19:13:38 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:

> 
> This does look much nicer, lets use this version.
> 
> I think Peter were prefer a new clean patch that superceeds the
> original.
> 
> > +	if (!priv->irq_tested) {
> 
> I think the sleep and check is still needed here, the IRQ delivery
> could race relative to the MMIO read of completion, a sleep is the
> only way we could attempt to synchronize them..
> 

So will there be a v9?

Merge Window is coming up shortly, so I would like to have this sorted out 
soon ;)

Thanks,
Peter
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