Re: [RFC,PATCH 1/2] Add a common struct clk

[Lothar Waßmann]

Hi,

> > Using a mutex in clk_enable()/clk_disable() is a bad idea, since that
> > makes it impossible to call those functions in interrupt context.
> 
> Do we do this at the moment? I know at least one implementation of clk_enable 
> uses a mutex for locking.
> 
You are probably talking about the Freescale i.MX51 kernel, that won't
even boot, if you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK,
CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP and CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP.
The mutex in the clock implementation is one of the reasons.


Lothar Waßmann
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