[PATCH v7 1/2] provide lock-less versions of clk_{enable|disable}

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello,

On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 05:59:32PM +0100, Alexandre Bailon wrote:
> Rename __clk_{enable|disble} in davinci_clk_{enable|disable}.
> davinci_clk_{enable|disable} is a lock-less version of
> clk_{enable|disable}.
> This is useful to recursively enable clock without doing recursive call
> to clk_enable(), which would cause a recursive locking issue.
> The lock-less version could be used by example by the usb20 phy clock,
> that need to enable the usb20 clock before to start.

I wouldn't call that lock-less. The difference is that the newly exposed
funcion requires the caller to already hold the lock. So maybe a better
name would be clk_enable_locked.

Would it be more sensible to convert davinci to common-clk?

Best regards
Uwe

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