Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] drivers: hwspinlock: add framework

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Feb 01 2011 - 10:35:51 EST


On Monday 31 January 2011, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> Add a platform-independent hwspinlock framework.
>
> Hardware spinlock devices are needed, e.g., in order to access data
> that is shared between remote processors, that otherwise have no
> alternative mechanism to accomplish synchronization and mutual exclusion
> operations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hari Kanigeri <h-kanigeri2@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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