Hi Jon, On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:07:39 -0700 > Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > I'm missing something here. >> >> Yes. >> >> The analysis above is required to show that the API contract asserted by >> the proposed change to the documentation is currently true in the code, >> which is what I care about. > > Yes, but the analysis says nothing about what uart_break_ctl() itself > might do, so by itself, it provides no guarantee for break_ctl(). That > was my sticking point since somebody clearly put that line in there for a > reason. > > Looking at the code, it's pretty obvious that uart_break_ctl() isn't > acquiring any spinlocks. The documentation line in question has been > there, unchanged, since the beginning of the Git era. The patch is > obviously fine, and I've applied it, but I did tweak the changelog some. Sorry, this indeed needed more clarification. Thanks for fixing it up! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html