Paul/Benoit, On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 01:19:06PM +0100, Cousson, Benoit wrote: > On 12/3/2010 10:47 AM, G, Manjunath Kondaiah wrote: > >* Cousson, Benoit<b-cousson@xxxxxx> [2010-12-03 09:38:35 +0100]: > > [...] > > >>>v7: replaced mutex lock with spin lock. Added use count for controlling > >>>access to sysconfig registers in case if overlapping request/release API's > >>>are used. > >> > >>I'm not sure it should be done here. I'd rather keep that code in > >>the DMA, since this is the only user of that feature. > > > >Are you referring to spin lock or usage count? > > The spinlock is needed, I was referring to the usage count. > > That being said, the API proposed by Paul (request/release > ) sound like a get/put, so maybe he had that kind of usage in mind. > > I'm still not convince it should be done at hwmod API level. > > > Paul, > Any thoughts on that? How do we proceed further? -Manjunath -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
