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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>,
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	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/28] nvmem: add a notifier chain
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 18:13:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180808161353.GF7275@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180808153150.23444-4-brgl@bgdev.pl>

On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 05:31:25PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> 
> Add a blocking notifier chain with two events (add and remove) so that
> users can get notified about the addition of nvmem devices they're
> waiting for.
> 
> We'll use this instead of the at24 setup callback in the mityomapl138
> board file.

Hi Bartosz

What context is this notifier chain called in?

I did something similar using the i2c notifier to try to work around
the impending disappearing of the setup callback. But i got lockdep
splats, because the notifier was called while some locks were being
held, so it was not possible to register other i2c devices.

The at24 setup callback is done as part of probe, so no important
locks are held. Are any locks held when this notifier chain is called?

Thanks
	Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-08 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-08 15:31 [PATCH 00/28] at24: remove at24_platform_data Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 01/28] nvmem: add support for cell lookups Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 02/28] Documentation: nvmem: document lookup entries Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 03/28] nvmem: add a notifier chain Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 16:13   ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-08-08 16:30     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 04/28] nvmem: provide nvmem_device_name() Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 17:42   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 05/28] nvmem: remove the name field from struct nvmem_device Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 06/28] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the nvmem API Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 16:20   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-08-08 16:26     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 07/28] ARM: davinci: dm365-evm: use nvmem lookup for mac address Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 17:43   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 08/28] ARM: davinci: dm644-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 09/28] ARM: davinci: dm646x-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 10/28] ARM: davinci: da830-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 11/28] ARM: davinci: mityomapl138: add nvmem cells lookup entries Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 12/28] ARM: davinci: da850-evm: use nvmem lookup for mac address Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 13/28] ARM: davinci: da850-evm: remove unnecessary include Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 14/28] net: split eth_platform_get_mac_address() into subroutines Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 17:50   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-09 11:12     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 15/28] net: add support for nvmem to eth_platform_get_mac_address() Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 16/28] net: davinci_emac: use eth_platform_get_mac_address() Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 17/28] ARM: davinci: da850-evm: remove dead MTD code Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 18/28] ARM: davinci: mityomapl138: don't read the MAC address from machine code Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 19/28] ARM: davinci: dm365-evm: use device properties for at24 eeprom Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 17:54   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 20/28] ARM: davinci: da830-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 17:55   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 21/28] ARM: davinci: dm644x-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 17:55   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-08 17:59     ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 22/28] ARM: davinci: dm646x-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 17:56   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 23/28] ARM: davinci: sffsdr: fix the at24 eeprom device name Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 24/28] ARM: davinci: sffsdr: use device properties for at24 eeprom Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 17:57   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-08 18:00     ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 25/28] ARM: davinci: remove dead code related to MAC address reading Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 26/28] ARM: davinci: mityomapl138: use nvmem notifiers Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 27/28] ARM: davinci: mityomapl138: use device properties for at24 eeprom Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 17:58   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-08 18:00     ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 28/28] eeprom: at24: kill at24_platform_data Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 18:03   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-09 11:33     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-09 11:35       ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 15:55 ` [PATCH 00/28] at24: remove at24_platform_data Wolfram Sang
2018-08-08 16:27   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-08 16:44     ` Andrew Lunn
2018-08-08 16:52       ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:12         ` Sekhar Nori

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