Re: rtc-pcf8563: circular locking dependency

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Hi

Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> Thanks for the report. This is actually a known issue (at least, I know
> about it).
> 
> I'm adding the clock framework maintainers as this is actually an issue
> that affects any device exposing clocks that are on a bus using clock
> operations in its transfer operations. Here, an i2c RTC, exposing clocks
> and connected on an imx6.
> 
> This has been solved by caching the registers for the m41t80 RTC, see:
> 
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/rtc-linux/list/?series=11636&state=*
> 
> But, I find that cumbersome and maybe something can be done in the clk
> framework. I didn't check what the prepare_lock protects yet. But maybe
> we can have another lock for get_rate and the like?
> 
> Stephen, Mike, any input?

Any update regarding this issue?


Dave



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