[PATCHv6 4/5] hwspinlock/core: add common OF helpers

[Ohad Ben-Cohen]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Suman Anna <s-anna at ti.com> wrote:
>> It seems to me that hwspin_lock_request_specific failures should be
>> used by clients to defer their probing. Why wouldn't such a simple
>> solution work?

> Because the API always returns NULL on failures and there is no way for
> the clients to figure out if the lock id passed is invalid or the bank
> containing the lock is not registered.

It seems to me this may always be the case - lock ids may be wrong and
there's no way to fully validate them.

Let's start with the simpler approach where
hwspin_lock_request_specific failures are used by clients to defer
their probing.

If a real use case will require changes we can always do that later,
though it seems to me the only gain by changing this API is to catch a
small subset of fatal DT mistakes which will anyway be caught very
early in the development.

Thanks,
Ohad.