Re: [PATCH 2/3] hwmon: f71882fg: use a muxed resource lock for theSuper I/O port

From: Giel van Schijndel
Date: Sat Jul 31 2010 - 17:28:55 EST


On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:35:40 +0200, Giel van Schijndel wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 14:17:42 +0100, Giel van Schijndel wrote:
>> Sleep while acquiring a resource lock on the Super I/O port. This
>> should prevent collisions from causing the hardware probe to fail
>> with -EBUSY.
>
> Fix a bug which caused f71882fg_find() to pretend to be succesfull on
> Super I/O ports which didn't have a Fintek chip attached. This was
> caused by returning 0 instead of -ENODEV, adding several 'err =
> -ENODEV' statements preceding the 'goto exit' statements fixed this.
>
> Patch follows this line:
> ========================================================================
> Sleep while acquiring a resource lock on the Super I/O port. This
> should prevent collisions from causing the hardware probe to fail with
> -EBUSY.
>
> Signed-off-by: Giel van Schijndel <me@xxxxxxxxx>

All of this patch's dependencies now reside in mainline, so I'd like to
"renew" the request for applying it.

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Met vriendelijke groet,
With kind regards,
Giel van Schijndel

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