Re: [PATCH 2/2] dma:of: Use a mutex to protect the of_dma_list

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 19 April 2013, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> Well, It's not only about the of_dma struct, e.g. the of_dma's of_dma_data
> field usually points to some driver allocated data. If we do not block in
> of_dma_controller_free() this data might be freed while the controller is
> still in use.

Right, makes sense. This could of course be worked around using a destructor
in the of_dma struct, but your approach is much simpler.

	Arnd
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