Am 16.03.2016 um 20:33 schrieb Vladimir Zapolskiy: > On 16.03.2016 20:53, Heiner Kallweit wrote: >> Access to dev->initialized is atomic, therefore we don't have to >> protect it with a mutex. > > Mutexes are used to split the code to mutually exclusive execution blocks, > so not arguing about the apparently correct change itself I want to > emphasize that the given explanation of the change in the commit message is > wrong. Atomic access does not cancel a specific care about execution > ordering. > > Indirectly it applies to ("rc-core: allow calling rc_open with device not > initialized"), where "initialized" bool property was changed to atomic_t > type --- this (sub-)change is just useless. > > Please grasp the topic and reword the commit message. > Thanks for the hint, you're right. Will change the commit message and send a v2. Regards, Heiner >> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c | 2 -- >> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c >> index 4e9bbe7..68541b1 100644 >> --- a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c >> +++ b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c >> @@ -1492,9 +1492,7 @@ int rc_register_device(struct rc_dev *dev) >> } >> >> /* Allow the RC sysfs nodes to be accessible */ >> - mutex_lock(&dev->lock); >> atomic_set(&dev->initialized, 1); >> - mutex_unlock(&dev->lock); >> >> IR_dprintk(1, "Registered rc%u (driver: %s, remote: %s, mode %s)\n", >> dev->minor, >> > > -- > With best wishes, > Vladimir > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html