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

[Davide Ciminaghi]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 05:49:33PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 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.

sorry, forget my last reply, I had not enough sleep tonight. That's ok,
I will use nested spinlocks.

Thanks
Davide
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