On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:07:39 -0700
Peter Hurley <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I'm missing something here.  
> 
> Yes.
> 
> The analysis above is required to show that the API contract asserted by
> the proposed change to the documentation is currently true in the code,
> which is what I care about.

Yes, but the analysis says nothing about what uart_break_ctl() itself
might do, so by itself, it provides no guarantee for break_ctl().  That
was my sticking point since somebody clearly put that line in there for a
reason.

Looking at the code, it's pretty obvious that uart_break_ctl() isn't
acquiring any spinlocks.  The documentation line in question has been
there, unchanged, since the beginning of the Git era.  The patch is
obviously fine, and I've applied it, but I did tweak the changelog some.

Thanks,

jon
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