Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/2] pinctrl: st: avoid multiple mutex lock

[Patrice Chotard]

Hi Linus
On 01/07/2015 10:44 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Patrice CHOTARD <patrice.chotard@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Francesco VIRLINZI <francesco.virlinzi@xxxxxx>
> >
> > Using the sysfs inteface to inspect the pins configuration
> > the system can walk around a path which acquires the same
> > mutex twice.
> >
> > On STiH407 platform, for example :
> > cat /sys/kernel/debug/pinctrl/920f080.pin-controller-front0/pinconf-pins
> > hangs the kernel and never returns.
> >
> > With this patch the mutex is temporary freed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Francesco Virlinzi <francesco.virlinzi@xxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@xxxxxx>
> Patch applied to fixes. Sorry for the delay.

Don't worry ;-)

Thanks

> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

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