Re: [PATCH 5/5] ARM: OMAP: remove unnecessary locking in clk_get_rate()

Paul Walmsley
2008-06-04T07:01:08Z

Hi Kevin,

On Tue, 20 May 2008, Kevin Hilman wrote:

> The locking in the get_rate() hook is unnecessary, and causes problems
> when used with the -rt patch, since it may be called recursively.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@mvista.com>

Acked-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>

BTW, looks like we could probably get rid of some of the other spinlocking
in plat-omap/clock.c also -- clk_get_usecount() ?

- Paul