RE: [PATCH 02/13] clk: davinci - add PSC clock driver

From: Karicheri, Muralidharan
Date: Wed Oct 10 2012 - 10:19:36 EST


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>> From: Nori, Sekhar
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>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] clk: davinci - add PSC clock driver
>>
>> On 10/10/2012 6:05 PM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
>>
>> >> +struct clk *clk_register_davinci_psc(struct device *dev, const char *name,
>> >> + const char *parent_name,
>> >> + struct clk_davinci_psc_data *psc_data,
>> >> + spinlock_t *lock)
>> >
>> > Why do you need the lock to be provided from outside of this file? You
>> > can initialize a lock for serializing writes to PSC registers within
>> > this file, no?
>>
>> Looking again, it seems like the common clock framework defines an "enable_lock" in
>> drivers/clk/clk.c to serialize the clock enable/disable calls. Unless I am missing something,
>> this lock seems unnecessary.
>>

I think you are right. For enable() api, enable_lock is sufficient and I will remove this.

>> Thanks,
>> Sekhar
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