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Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 12:13:08 +0200
From: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@...hu>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent
loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset
2017-03-31 17:05 keltezéssel, Guenter Roeck írta:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 04:46:02PM +0200, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>> 2017-03-31 14:49 keltezéssel, Guenter Roeck írta:
>>> request_muxed_region() can fail, and literally every other driver
>>> using it checks for that failure. Please do the same.
>>
>> In what circumstances can request_muxed_region() fail? As far as
>> I can see, only if two drivers use the same I/O port base and the
>> already present region did not use IORESOURCE_MUXED which is
>> not the case here. When request_muxed_region() is used consistently,
>> subsequent requests are put on a wait queue and the first one is
>> woken up when the region is released. So, it's basically a mutex.
>> Am I missing something here?
>>
>
> Yes. failure to allocate the resource is one.
So, a common mutex should be used.
I have also added synchronization to the USB PCI quirks code and
have split the patch into three pieces now (USB quirks, i2c-piix4 and
sp5100_tco) and they were sent to the relevant mailing lists.
I don't know which subsystem wants to take it, all 3 patches are
needed at once.
Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi
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