[RFC PATCH 06/10] hwspinlock: OMAP4: Add spinlock support in DT

Ohad Ben-Cohen ohad at wizery.com
Thu Sep 8 04:11:35 EDT 2011


On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Cousson, Benoit <b-cousson at ti.com> wrote:
> The (small) issue for my point of view is that the #hwspinlock is already
> encoded in the IP itself. So adding a baseid directly in DT will look like
> duplicating indirectly something that is already there in the HW.
> That being said, since we cannot rely on the order, we will not be able to
> get the proper baseid until the driver probe every hwspinlock devices :-(
> So baseid might be a easier choice.

Sounds good. Thanks a lot !



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