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From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: piix4: Avoid race conditions with IMC
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:40:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170112104006.4dfed9b7@endymion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VdnoW84sQh-vf57NSC6_tXGqvb_36KCPpi-XFbktWiKfw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:49:21 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
> > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c
> > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c
> > @@ -585,9 +585,28 @@ static s32 piix4_access_sb800(struct i2c_adapter *adap, u16 addr,
> >                  u8 command, int size, union i2c_smbus_data *data)
> >  {
> >         struct i2c_piix4_adapdata *adapdata = i2c_get_adapdata(adap);
> > +       unsigned short piix4_smba = adapdata->smba;
> >         u8 smba_en_lo;
> >         u8 port;
> >         int retval;
> > +       int timeout = 0;
> > +       int smbslvcnt;
> 
> Keep them just after your another added variable.

FWIW, I don't think this makes sense as a general rule. I'd rather have
the variables in an order which makes sense (for human readers or for
stack size optimization - unless gcc does it for us?), rather than
always adding at the same place. Is there a rationale for doing that? I
don't think shrinking the patch size is good enough a reason.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-12  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-10 12:16 [PATCH] i2c: piix4: Avoid race conditions with IMC Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2017-01-11  1:49 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-01-11  9:11   ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2017-01-12  9:40   ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2017-01-12 10:00     ` Wolfram Sang
2017-01-12 19:37       ` Andy Shevchenko

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