Hi,
On 11/09/2016 01:38 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
Initially the claim about no need for lock in brightness_show()
was valid as the function was just returning unchanged
LED brightness. After the addition of led_update_brightness() this
The claim was probably wrong from the day one, unless brightness is of
type "atomic_t".
/* Ensures consistent access to the LED Flash Class device */
struct mutex led_access;
};
This should really list fields that are protected by led_access.
Originally it was introduced to facilitate disabling LED subsystem
sysfs interface, i.e. it protects flags property of
struct led_classdev.
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Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski
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