Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: imx: do not sleep if IRQ's are still disabled

[Dong Aisheng]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 10:08:01PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> > Then it may need introduce a lot changes and increase many new core APIs.
> > Is that a problem?
> 
> No. That's all better than each driver having broken workarounds. It's a
> common problem so it wants to be addressed at the core level. There you have a
> central point to do this and you can still catch abusers which call stuff from
> the wrong context. The hacks in the drivers don't allow that because they look
> at the context, i.e. irq disabled, instead of checking the system state.
> 

Okay, thanks.
If you wouldn't mind i could send out a patch based on your
suggestion for further discussion.

Thanks

Regards
Dong Aisheng

> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx