Re: [PATCH] OMAP: Keypad driver

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Jul 22 2006 - 05:38:09 EST


On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:26:14 -0700
"Komal Shah" <komal_shah802003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Please review the attached TI OMAP Keypad driver patch
> and consider it for -mm submission.

The code looks clean.

- Could use setup_timer().

- Check the return value from device_create_file() (and any and all such
similar functions), handle failure appropriately.

- I don't think the tasklet stopping code is correct. tasklet_disable()
will prevent the callback from being called. The del_timer_sync() will
kill off the timer. But the just-killed timer handler might have left
the tasklet scheduled, and although it will not call the handler, the
high-level tasklet code can still execute, and will then start playing
with now-freed data. A final tasklet_kill() should fix that up.

- Perhaps the probe function is requesting the IRQ too early? The IRQ
handler can perhaps be called while the hardware is still being set up.

- Use INTF_TRIGGER_FALLING (etc), not the now-deprecated SA_TRIGGER_FALLING.

- The changelog needs work. What's an OMAP? ;)

- Finally, by what authority does random_person@xxxxxxxxx submit Nokia
and TI's code?? Please review Section 11 of
Documentation/SubmittingPatches, seek and obtain signoffs from the other
authors and then add your own, thanks.

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