From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dpervushin@gmail.com,
akpm@osdl.org, greg@kroah.com, basicmark@yahoo.com,
komal_shah802003@yahoo.com, stephen@streetfiresound.com,
spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net, Joachim_Jaeger@digi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add DMAUNSAFE analog to David Brownell's core
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:55:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200512140855.43976.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <439F47F1.1060909@ru.mvista.com>
On Tuesday 13 December 2005 2:15 pm, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> Take for instance spi_w8r8 function used in lotsa places in the drivers
> you and Stephen have posted.
> This function has a) *implicit memcpy* inherited from
> spi_write_then_read b) *implicit priority inversion* inherited from the
> same place.
No, (a) is explicit, along with comments not to use that family of
calls when such things matter more than the convenience of those
RPC-ish calls. And (b) was fixed a small patch, now merged.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-14 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-12 15:20 [PATCH 2.6-git 0/4] SPI core refresh Vitaly Wool
2005-12-12 15:22 ` [PATCH 2.6-git 1/4] SPI core refresh: SPI core patch Vitaly Wool
2005-12-12 15:49 ` Russell King
2005-12-12 15:24 ` [PATCH 2.6-git 2/4] SPI core refresh: MTD dataflash driver Vitaly Wool
2005-12-12 15:26 ` [PATCH 2.6-git 3/4] SPI core refresh: SPI/PNX controller Vitaly Wool
2005-12-12 15:27 ` [PATCH 2.6-git 4/4] SPI core refresh: dumb EEPROM driver Vitaly Wool
2005-12-12 18:01 ` [PATCH 2.6-git 0/4] SPI core refresh Rui Sousa
2005-12-13 12:09 ` [spi-devel-general] " dmitry pervushin
2005-12-13 15:11 ` Rui Sousa
2005-12-13 17:06 ` dmitry pervushin
2005-12-14 6:57 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-14 14:28 ` Rui Sousa
2005-12-13 16:35 ` David Brownell
2005-12-13 18:02 ` Rui Sousa
2005-12-13 14:06 ` [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add async message handing library to David Brownell's core Vitaly Wool
2005-12-13 16:53 ` [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add DMAUNSAFE analog " Vitaly Wool
2005-12-13 19:01 ` David Brownell
2005-12-13 19:15 ` Greg KH
2005-12-14 13:50 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-14 17:18 ` Greg KH
2005-12-14 17:53 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-14 18:50 ` [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add DMAUNSAFE analog David Brownell
2005-12-14 19:29 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-14 19:02 ` [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add DMAUNSAFE analog to David Brownell's core David Brownell
2005-12-14 19:19 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-14 19:33 ` [spi-devel-general] Re: [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add DMAUNSAFE analog David Brownell
2005-12-14 19:34 ` [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add DMAUNSAFE analog to David Brownell's core Vitaly Wool
2005-12-15 6:47 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-15 16:44 ` Greg KH
2005-12-15 22:23 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-15 23:02 ` Greg KH
2005-12-16 8:37 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-16 17:34 ` Greg KH
2005-12-16 18:32 ` [spi-devel-general] Re: [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add DMAUNSAFE analog David Brownell
2005-12-15 20:06 ` David Brownell
2005-12-15 22:17 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-15 22:33 ` Greg KH
2005-12-16 3:34 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-12-16 5:17 ` Greg KH
2005-12-14 19:16 ` [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add DMAUNSAFE analog to David Brownell's core Greg KH
2005-12-14 19:30 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-15 10:00 ` [spi-devel-general] " dmitry pervushin
2005-12-14 17:22 ` David Brownell
2005-12-14 17:50 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-14 19:17 ` [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add DMAUNSAFE analog David Brownell
2005-12-14 20:11 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-13 21:47 ` [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add DMAUNSAFE analog to David Brownell's core Vitaly Wool
2005-12-13 22:15 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-14 16:55 ` David Brownell [this message]
2005-12-14 17:23 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-14 18:48 ` [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add async message handing library " Stephen Street
2005-12-14 19:41 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-14 21:19 ` Stephen Street
2005-12-14 19:31 ` [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add async message handing library David Brownell
2005-12-15 12:19 ` [PATCH/RFC] SPI: async message handing library update Vitaly Wool
2005-12-18 18:59 ` David Brownell
2005-12-19 15:40 ` [spi-devel-general] " dmitry pervushin
2005-12-20 7:23 ` David Brownell
2005-12-20 18:02 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-22 17:28 ` David Brownell
2005-12-22 22:10 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-22 23:55 ` David Brownell
2005-12-21 13:17 ` Vitaly Wool
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