Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans J. Koch [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 2:57 AM
> To: TK, Pratheesh Gangadhar
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Chatterjee, Amit;
> [email protected]; linux-arm-
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/1] PRUSS UIO driver support
> 
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:31:35AM +0530, Pratheesh Gangadhar wrote:
> > +
> > +           /* Register PRUSS IRQ lines */
> > +           p->irq = IRQ_DA8XX_EVTOUT0 + cnt;
> > +           p->handler = pruss_handler;
> > +
> > +           ret = uio_register_device(&dev->dev, p);
> > +
> > +           if (ret < 0)
> > +                   goto out_free;
> > +   }
> > +
> > +   spin_lock_init(&lock);
> 
> That's too late. uio_register_device() enables the irq, and your spin_lock
> is not ready at that time.

This is ok in this context as "modprobe uio_pruss" is pre-requisite for
running PRUSS firmware and without firmware running PRUSS won't
generate interrupts. Actually PRUSS INTC is not setup till we start
user application.

Thanks,
Pratheesh

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