Re: [PATCH] Change comment in include linux/clk.h

[Haavard Skinnemoen]

Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I see several ARM implementation using mutexes for locking in these
> > functions. So I assume we never want to call them from interrupt
> > context, right?  
> 
> Correct.  I'm not sure why anyone would even consider doing so.

I can't think of any reason to do so either, but having the comment
there makes me feel safer about having calls that might sleep or
irq-unsafe spinlocks in the implementation.

Haavard
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