Hi, On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:58:53PM +0530, Munegowda, Keshava wrote: > I you see only the patch ; its looks like variable halt is not needed; > > If the code; it will be set only when the clocks are disabled; > Then after restoring irq, you will free the gpio based on this value. that code is wrong in so many ways that it's difficult to reply, but in short: . get rid of the magic constants, define some macros . instead of using only one error label, use several each one taking care of a different case (that will allow you to remove halt flag) . timeout is never reset, meaning after the first loop, the time_after() will always be true. . this omap->count is ugly. . you shouldn't be accessing pdata on the exit path . that save in spin_lock_irqsave() looks unnecessary. Wouldn't spin_lock_irq() be enough ? -- balbi -- 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