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

[Santosh]

On Friday 26 August 2011 09:04 PM, Santosh wrote:
> 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 ?
>
This assumption is really not true. Time APIs can get called
from IRQ context from client drivers. You can just drop
this patch.

Regards
Santosh