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Re: [PATCH] mt7601u: make write with mask access atomic

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On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 23:59:24 +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> Introduce __mt7601u_rr and __mt7601u_vendor_single_wr routines in order
> to make mt7601u_rmw and mt7601u_rmc atomic since it is possible that
> read and write accesses of mt7601u_rmw/mt7601u_rmc can be interleaved
> with a different write operation on the same register.
> Moreover move write trace point in __mt7601u_vendor_single_wr
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@xxxxxxxxxx>

Could you provide an example of which accesses make it problematic?
Is this fixing an actual bug?



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