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From: ohad@wizery.com (Ohad Ben-Cohen)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:20:21 -0800
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/4] drivers: hwspinlock: add generic framework
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> Do we even need the hwspin_lock variants,

I personally don't have any specific use case in mind.

It's just a simple wrapper over the _timeout variants, provided for
API completeness, but -

> why can't we always use the hwspin_lock_timeout variants?

We can. I can just remove the _lock variants.