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firewire: ohci: add a comment on PHY reg access serialization

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Stefan Richter 14 years ago
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      drivers/firewire/ohci.c

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drivers/firewire/ohci.c

@@ -513,6 +513,12 @@ static inline void flush_writes(const struct fw_ohci *ohci)
 	reg_read(ohci, OHCI1394_Version);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Beware!  read_phy_reg(), write_phy_reg(), update_phy_reg(), and
+ * read_paged_phy_reg() require the caller to hold ohci->phy_reg_mutex.
+ * In other words, only use ohci_read_phy_reg() and ohci_update_phy_reg()
+ * directly.  Exceptions are intrinsically serialized contexts like pci_probe.
+ */
 static int read_phy_reg(struct fw_ohci *ohci, int addr)
 {
 	u32 val;