Hello, I've noticed that the mvebu and designware both use spinlocks to serialize access to the configuration space (pci_ops.[read|write]). However the read/write ops are only ever used from the pci core (access.c, pci.c) where they are already protected with the pci_lock. As far as I can tell these extra spinlocks are superfluous, therefore... Can they be removed? Can future host bridge drivers assume that calls to the pci_ops are serialized? I'm happy to provide a patch for the existing drivers if so. Thanks, Andrew Murray -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
