Re: [PATCH 2/2] regmap: Make regmap-mmio usable from differentcontexts

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 09:42:37AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:

> I guess the core of the issue is that you want to replace spin_lock()
> with spin_lock_irqsave(). I'd like to see that explicitly described in
> the commit description, if that is the core aspect of this change.

Yes, I was just going to rewrite the commit log to make this a lot
clearer - the entire first paragraph could pretty much just be replaced
by just saying that we need spin_lock_irqsave() to allow interaction
with interrupt context.

> ... and obviously add a spinlock_flags field to struct regmap (perhaps
> start unioning the mutex and spinlock data fields there if you want to
> save space).

This should work, yes - care to respin Lars-Peter?

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