[PATCH v2 1/4] drivers: hwspinlock: add generic framework

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Tue Nov 30 17:23:29 EST 2010


* Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad at wizery.com> [101130 14:10]:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony at 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.

OK sounds good to me.

Tony



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