linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] sta2x11-mfd : add apb-soc regs driver and factor out common code

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Message-ID: <20120926164932.GS4428@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:49:33 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Davide Ciminaghi <ciminaghi@...dd.com>
Cc:	sameo@...ux.intel.com, rubini@...dd.com, giancarlo.asnaghi@...com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] sta2x11-mfd : add apb-soc regs driver and factor out
 common code

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 06:31:45PM +0200, Davide Ciminaghi wrote:

> Oh, and there's another problem (I'm looking at the code right now, I had
> forgotten about this): the clock framework also asks for a spinlock_t *.
> Regmap has its own spinlock (or mutex), and I don't think it would be a
> good idea trying to export it.

Why is this a problem?  Nested spinlocks are perfectly fine.
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