Locking in the clk API

[Saravana Kannan]

On 01/21/2011 01:32 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 08:12:45PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
>> In my opinion, the only major reason for needing atomic clk APIs was due
>> to device_ops->suspend being atomic. Since that's not the case anymore,
>> I really don't see a justification for atomic clocks. Sure, I might have
>> missed some exceptions, but in that case we should make the atomic APIs
>> an exception (add clk_enable_atomic) and not the norm.
>
> The suspend method has never been atomic.  It has always been able to
> sleep.  You're mistaken.

I distinctly remember trying to do sleeping stuff inside a .suspend 
function and have it complain that it's atomic. So, I think you might be 
mistaken. But I will have to back up my claims. Let me trying to find 
that info. In the end, one of us will learn something new -- which is 
good and all that matters.

-Saravana

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