[PATCH v6 13/20] pwm: Add new pwm-samsung driver
Andrew Bresticker
abrestic at chromium.org
Wed Aug 7 15:35:42 EDT 2013
Hi Tomasz,
> +#ifndef CONFIG_CLKSRC_SAMSUNG_PWM
> +/*
> + * PWM block is shared between pwm-samsung and samsung_pwm_timer drivers
> + * and some registers need access synchronization. If both drivers are
> + * compiled in, the spinlock is defined in the clocksource driver,
> + * otherwise following definition is used.
> + *
> + * Currently we do not need any more complex synchronization method
> + * because all the supported SoCs contain only one instance of the PWM
> + * IP. Should this change, both drivers will need to be modified to
> + * properly synchronize accesses to particular instances.
> + */
> +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(samsung_pwm_lock);
Shouldn't this not be static? It's declared in
clocksource/samsung_pwm.h whether or not the samsung_pwm_timer is
compiled in or not.
Thanks,
Andrew
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