Messages in this thread | | | From | Ohad Ben-Cohen <> | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:00:22 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers: misc: add omap_hwspinlock driver |
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> wrote: > Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> writes: > >> From: Simon Que <sque@ti.com> >> >> Add driver for OMAP's Hardware Spinlock module. >> >> The OMAP Hardware Spinlock module, initially introduced in OMAP4, >> provides hardware assistance for synchronization between the >> multiple processors in the device (Cortex-A9, Cortex-M3 and >> C64x+ DSP). > ...
>> +config OMAP_HWSPINLOCK >> + bool "OMAP Hardware Spinlock module" > > Should be tristate
Agree,
> so it can also be built as a module by default. > > e.g., when building multi-OMAP kernels, no reason or this to be > built-in. It can then be loaded as a module on OMAP4 only.
But considering the current built-in use cases (i2c) we would then need to have the relevant MACH_OMAP4_* select OMAP_HWSPINLOCK (only on the OMAP4 machines on which the I2C bus is shared).
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