Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Add comments explaining the _cansleep() WARN_ON()s

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Feb 17 2012 - 13:46:58 EST


On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Mark Brown
<broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've seen users getting very confused by the WARN_ON()s for can_sleep
> GPIOs in the atomic-safe paths, the discoverability of the non-atomic
> version of the API seems to be hampered by the fact that it's defined
> in a header file not the .c file where the warnings are.
>
> Add a couple of comments next to the warnings to help people on their
> way.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Linus Walleij
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