Re: rtc-pcf8563: circular locking dependency

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Hello,

On 22/12/2017 14:19:47+0100, David Müller (ELSOFT AG) wrote:
> 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?
> 

I believe this issue has been solved by 90ad2cbe88c2 ("i2c: imx: use clk notifier for rate changes").

> 
> Dave

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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
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