From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Santosh Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 REPOST 09/12] OMAP: dmtimer: use mutex instead of spinlock Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:04:12 +0530 Message-ID: <4E57BCF4.8030709@ti.com> References: <1310731501-13078-1-git-send-email-tarun.kanti@ti.com> <1310731501-13078-10-git-send-email-tarun.kanti@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from na3sys009aog120.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.140]:35606 "EHLO na3sys009aog120.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753787Ab1HZPeU (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:34:20 -0400 Received: by mail-gx0-f179.google.com with SMTP id 1so2593988gxk.10 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:34:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1310731501-13078-10-git-send-email-tarun.kanti@ti.com> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Tarun Kanti DebBarma Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, khilman@ti.com, tony@atomide.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Friday 15 July 2011 05:34 PM, Tarun Kanti DebBarma wrote: > Since the spinlock is not used in any interrupt context we can > replace it with mutex instead. > > Signed-off-by: Tarun Kanti DebBarma > --- Patch looks good but change log doesn't reflect it. Do you want to say that below API's are not used from interrupt context, so mutex should be good enough ? Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar Regards Santosh