Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] bq2415x_charger: Use power_supply notifier forautomode

[Anton Vorontsov]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 08:16:34PM +0100, Michael Trimarchi wrote:
...
> >> So you can read this value without any type of synchronization
> >> with the power_supply_core
> >> and sysfs implementation?
...
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2013-January/025206.html
> 
> I found and equivalent scenario that I was trying to said

That's a good question, actually. Even though in Pali's case the notifier
is atomic (so that we are pretty confident that the object won't be
unregistered), there is still a possiblity of a dead lock, for example. So
notifiers should be careful to not hold any locks, because the other
driver might call get_property(), which might acquire locks.

Thanks,

Anton
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