Re: [PATCH] cbus-retu: Acquire mutex on write operation

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On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 10:33 +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote: 
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:34:33AM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > The mutex has to be acquired on register write to avoid interference
> > with a simultaneous retu_set_clear_reg_bits operation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> good catch, please do the same for retu_read_reg()

I don't think this is necessary, because cbus_read_reg() and
cbus_write_reg() are atomic due to the cbus host->lock.
I think we can depend on this.
We could probably improve the comment on the lock in
cbus_transfer(), though.

-- 
Greetings Michael.

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