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fpga: fpga-region: comment on fpga_region_program_fpga locking
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Add a comment to the header of fpga_region_program_fpga()
regarding locking of the bridges.

Signed-off-by: Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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atull-altera authored and gregkh committed Apr 23, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ static void fpga_region_put(struct fpga_region *region)
* fpga_region_program_fpga - program FPGA
* @region: FPGA region
* Program an FPGA using fpga image info (region->info).
* If the region has a get_bridges function, the exclusive reference for the
* bridges will be held if programming succeeds. This is intended to prevent
* reprogramming the region until the caller considers it safe to do so.
* The caller will need to call fpga_bridges_put() before attempting to
* reprogram the region.
* Return 0 for success or negative error code.
*/
int fpga_region_program_fpga(struct fpga_region *region)
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