linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] counter: 104-quad-8: Add lock guards

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Message-ID: <20200318021802.GB45571@icarus>
Date:   Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:18:02 -0400
From:   William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
To:     Syed Nayyar Waris <syednwaris@...il.com>, jic23@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] counter: 104-quad-8: Add lock guards -
 differential encoder

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 06:20:06PM +0530, Syed Nayyar Waris wrote:
> Add lock protection from race conditions to 104-quad-8 counter driver
> for differential encoder status code changes. Mutex lock calls used for
> protection.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Syed Nayyar Waris <syednwaris@...il.com>
> ---
> Changes in v5:
>  - Change spin lock calls to mutex lock calls.
>  - Modify the title description.

Looks like the Fixes tags were dropped in these last two patches. I
suppose they aren't really necessary though since these features haven't
yet made it out of the IIO tree, so no need to backport these fixes.

Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>

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