On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Mark Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:57:50AM -0700, Bryan Wu wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Ian Lartey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > + spinlock_t value_lock; > >> I think you don't need this spinlock to protect the value, the mutex is >> enough. > > You need to use a spinlock because values can be set from hard IRQ > context so you can't take a mutex there. Someone should really factor > this out into the framework in their copious free time, the set and > schedule pattern is very common in drivers.
Ah, exactly. I think I provided a patch before to add those schedule workqueue stuff into the leds frameworks. But don't have time to update it according to the review. Thanks, -Bryan _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
