[PATCH] I2C: fix recently introduced race in IBM PPC4xx I2C driver
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:21:08PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
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> It looks like this change added race I tried to avoid here.
>
> This code is modeled after __wait_event_interruptible_timeout, where
> "prepare_to_wait" is done _before_ checking completion status. This
> change breaks this, e.g. if IRQ happens right after we check iic->sts,
> but before calling msleep_interruptible(). In this case we'll sleep
> much more than required (seconds instead of microseconds)
>
> Greg, if my analysis is correct, please rollback this change.
>
> Nishanth, I'd be nice if you CC'ed me with this patch, my e-mail is at
> the top of that source file.
Oh, well. I should have used wait_event_interruptible_timeout when I
ported this driver to 2.6.
This patch fixes recently introduced race and also cleans ups some
2.4-ism.