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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-10-28 19:28:52 +0100
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-10-28 19:29:19 +0100
commit3bd7bf1f0fe14f591c089ae61bbfa9bd356f178a (patch)
tree0058693cc9e70b7461dae551f8a19aff2efd13ca /include/linux/firewire.h
parentf16f84937d769c893492160b1a8c3672e3992beb (diff)
parente657e078d3dfa9f96976db7a2b5fd7d7c9f1f1a6 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Sync up with Linus' tree to be able to apply Cesar's patch against newer version of the code. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/firewire.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/firewire.h12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/firewire.h b/include/linux/firewire.h
index db04ec5121c..191501afd7f 100644
--- a/include/linux/firewire.h
+++ b/include/linux/firewire.h
@@ -265,8 +265,16 @@ typedef void (*fw_transaction_callback_t)(struct fw_card *card, int rcode,
void *data, size_t length,
void *callback_data);
/*
- * Important note: Except for the FCP registers, the callback must guarantee
- * that either fw_send_response() or kfree() is called on the @request.
+ * This callback handles an inbound request subaction. It is called in
+ * RCU read-side context, therefore must not sleep.
+ *
+ * The callback should not initiate outbound request subactions directly.
+ * Otherwise there is a danger of recursion of inbound and outbound
+ * transactions from and to the local node.
+ *
+ * The callback is responsible that either fw_send_response() or kfree()
+ * is called on the @request, except for FCP registers for which the core
+ * takes care of that.
*/
typedef void (*fw_address_callback_t)(struct fw_card *card,
struct fw_request *request,