Re: [PATCH v1] Input: elants_i2c: Add Elan touchscreen support

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Thu Nov 20 2014 - 15:27:42 EST


On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 09:47 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:31:30AM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > +static int elants_i2c_initialize(struct elants_data *ts)
> > > +{
> > > + struct i2c_client *client = ts->client;
> > > + int error, retry_cnt;
> > > + const u8 hello_packet[] = { 0x55, 0x55, 0x55, 0x55 };
> > > + const u8 recov_packet[] = { 0x55, 0x55, 0x80, 0x80 };
> > > + u8 buf[HEADER_SIZE];
> > > +
> >
> > Strictly speaking you should disable preemption here.
>
> Umm, why?

You said the upper bound matters. So you need to protect yourself
against losing too much time by preemption.

Regards
Oliver


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