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Message-ID: <20160618202007.GC7172@lunn.ch>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 22:20:07 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kernel@...oirfairelinux.com,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>,
Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next v3 08/14] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: rename
smi_mutex to reg_lock
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:07:30PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> The chip smi_mutex mutex is used to protect the access to the internal
> switch registers, not only the Multi-chip Addressing Mode, as commented.
>
> Other registers access (like management frames) may use this mutex.
>
> Since we will isolate SMI-specific pieces of code, avoid the confusion
> now by renaming smi_mutex to reg_lock. No functional changes here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Andrew
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