[PATCH v4] clk: allow reentrant calls into the clk framework

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Wed Mar 27 13:12:22 EDT 2013


On Wed, 27 Mar 2013, Mike Turquette wrote:
> Quoting Laurent Pinchart (2013-03-27 02:08:15)
> > I wonder if it would make sense to abstract these operations in a generic 
> > recursive mutex. Given that it would delay this patch past v3.10 I won't push 
> > for that.
> > 
> 
> Having a nice implementation of recursive mutexes would have saved me
> some time.

If you encapsulate stuff nicely like I suggested, then switching to a
generic version later on is a nobrainer.
 
Thanks,

	tglx



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