Re: [PATCH 1/8] sta2x11-mfd : add apb-soc regs driver and factor outcommon code

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 06:31:45PM +0200, Davide Ciminaghi wrote:

> Oh, and there's another problem (I'm looking at the code right now, I had
> forgotten about this): the clock framework also asks for a spinlock_t *.
> Regmap has its own spinlock (or mutex), and I don't think it would be a
> good idea trying to export it.

Why is this a problem?  Nested spinlocks are perfectly fine.
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