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Re: [PATCH v2] mt7601u: make write with mask access atomic

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On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 23:30:01 +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> Introduce __mt7601u_rr and __mt7601u_vendor_single_wr routines in order
> to make mt7601u_rmw and mt7601u_rmc atomic. This patch does not fix a
> reported issue but makes the usb access more robust to concurrent
> operations on the same register since it is theoretically possible that
> read and write accesses of mt7601u_rmw/mt7601u_rmc can be interleaved with
> a different write operation on the same register.
> Moreover using __mt7601u_rr and __mt7601u_vendor_single_wr in
> mt7601u_rmw/mt7601u_rmc allows to grab vendor_req_mutex mutex once
> instead of twice
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@xxxxx>

Thanks!



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