Re: [RFC] Regulator: Push lock out of _notifier_call_chain + addvoltage change event.

[Liam Girdwood]

On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 18:20 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxx>
> Regulator: Push lock out of _notifier_call_chain and into caller functions
> (side effect of fixing deadlock in regulator_force_disable)
> + Add a voltage changed event.
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> Follow up to Mark Brown's suggestion of moving the regulator lock out
> of the notifier code.  This avoids cases where it was previously necessary
> to unlock the regulator before notification occured.
> 
> Any scenarios where this will cause trouble?
> 
> I'll do a documentation patch when we've pinned down how to do this.
> + can break the patch into one for pushing the lock out and one for
> adding the event.
> 
>  drivers/regulator/core.c             |   15 ++++++++++-----
>  drivers/regulator/wm8350-regulator.c |    2 ++
>  drivers/regulator/wm8400-regulator.c |    2 +-
>  include/linux/regulator/consumer.h   |    2 ++
>  4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 

Applied and fixed trailing white space.

Thanks

Liam

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