Re: [PATCH 1/3] alarmtimer: Replace the spinlock rtcdev_lock with mutex

[Oliver Neukum]

On Thursday 01 November 2012 00:20:55 Chuansheng Liu wrote:
> When do code reviewing, found no special requirement to
> use spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore, because
> alarmtimer_get_rtcdev() is called by posix clock interface.
> So would like to use mutex to replace it.

What is gained thereby?

	Regards
		Oliver

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