On 07/01/2011 20:50, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 08:42:37PM +0100, Fabien Marteau wrote: >> On 04/01/2011 12:01, Trilok Soni wrote: >>> Hi Fabien, >>> >>> On 1/4/2011 3:17 PM, Fabien Marteau wrote: >>>> + >>>> +static irqreturn_t as5011_int_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id) >>>> +{ >>>> + struct as5011_platform_data *plat_dat = dev_id; >>>> + >>>> + mutex_lock(&plat_dat->update_lock); >>>> + as5011_update_axes(plat_dat); >>>> + mutex_unlock(&plat_dat->update_lock); >>> >>> Please explain this lock. Sorry if I have missed out your explanation in the earlier threads. >> >> If a second interruption occurs the first update must be finished before update again. > > The ISR handler will not be called simultaneously on several CPUs. What > else can it race with? > Hum in fact nothing I thinks. I will delete it. Thanks Fabien -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html