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Message-ID: <20120927085649.GC6799@mail.gnudd.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:56:49 +0200
From:	Davide Ciminaghi <ciminaghi@...dd.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.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 05:49:33PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 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.

sorry, forget my last reply, I had not enough sleep tonight. That's ok,
I will use nested spinlocks.

Thanks
Davide
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