[PATCH v14 REPOST 09/12] OMAP: dmtimer: use mutex instead of spinlock

Santosh santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Fri Aug 26 11:34:12 EDT 2011


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<tarun.kanti at ti.com>
> ---
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 <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
Regards
Santosh




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