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author | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2011-06-21 13:24:26 (GMT) |
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committer | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2011-07-09 15:12:08 (GMT) |
commit | b14c369d87d7fbf120ad21919d34a8f1290290f1 (patch) | |
tree | 37947e2121f1c205ee4295c8c8c559d9f7693f87 | |
parent | 9ef28ccd59a23d219c4660f55a11ac06ca91f632 (diff) | |
download | linux-b14c369d87d7fbf120ad21919d34a8f1290290f1.tar.xz |
firewire: ohci: add a comment on PHY reg access serialization
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/firewire/ohci.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/ohci.c b/drivers/firewire/ohci.c index 3b6f342..a818dc8 100644 --- a/drivers/firewire/ohci.c +++ b/drivers/firewire/ohci.c @@ -513,6 +513,12 @@ static inline void flush_writes(const struct fw_ohci *ohci) reg_read(ohci, OHCI1394_Version); } +/* + * Beware! read_phy_reg(), write_phy_reg(), update_phy_reg(), and + * read_paged_phy_reg() require the caller to hold ohci->phy_reg_mutex. + * In other words, only use ohci_read_phy_reg() and ohci_update_phy_reg() + * directly. Exceptions are intrinsically serialized contexts like pci_probe. + */ static int read_phy_reg(struct fw_ohci *ohci, int addr) { u32 val; |