Re: [PATCH] Change struct flchip_shared spinlock locking into mutex

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Monday 02 August 2010, stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch prevent to schedule while atomic by changing the
> flchip_shared spinlock into a mutex. This should be save since no atomic
> path will use this lock.

I don't know this code well, but the patch looks correct and seems
to be needed.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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