Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] i2c: iproc: Add Broadcom iProc I2C Driver

From: Arend van Spriel
Date: Sun Jan 18 2015 - 06:47:02 EST


On 01/18/15 12:17, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
Hello Wolfram,

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:06:58PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:47:41AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:14:04AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
On 01/17/15 00:42, Ray Jui wrote:
+ complete_all(&iproc_i2c->done);

Looking over this code it seems to me there is always a single
process waiting for iproc_i2c->done to complete. So using complete()
here would suffice.
Yeah, there is always only a single thread waiting. That means both
complete and complete_all are suitable. AFAIK there is no reason to pick
one over the other in this case.

Clarity?
And which do you consider more clear? complete_all might result in the
question: "Is there>1 waiter?" and complete might yield to "What about
the other waiters?". If you already know there is only one, both are on
par on clarity. Might only be me?! I don't care much.

Maybe it is me, but it is not about questions but it is about implicit statements that the code makes (or reader derives from it). When using complete_all you indicate to the reader "there can be more than one waiter". When using complete it indicates "there is only one waiter". If those statements are not true that is a code issue/bug.

Regards,
Arend

Best regards
Uwe


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