On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 01:27:00PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:42:31AM -0700, John Linn wrote:
> > +
> > + /* Initialize the PS/2 interface */
> > + mutex_lock(&drvdata->cfg_mutex);
> > + if (xps2_initialize(drvdata)) {
> > + mutex_unlock(&drvdata->cfg_mutex);
> > + dev_err(dev, "Could not initialize device\n");
> > + retval = -ENODEV;
> > + goto failed3;
> > + }
> > + mutex_unlock(&drvdata->cfg_mutex);
>
> The drvdata is allocated per-port and so both (there are 2 PS/2 ports,
> right?) ports get their own copy of cfg_mutex. Since you are trying to
> serialze access to resource shared by both ports it will not work.
> The original driver-global mutex was appropriate (the only thing I
> objected there was use of a counting semaphore instead of a mutex).
John, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there are any shared
resources being accessed here and I believe the mutex is entirely
unnecessary.
Cheers,
g.
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