On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 04:03:35PM +0300, Grygorii Strashko wrote: > To achieve this goal: > - abstract regulator locking out into helper functions; > - use the root Regulator (which has no supply defined, like regA) in chain to > protect the whole chain; > - implement regulator chain locking scheme as proposed by Thomas Gleixner for CCF > re-entrance in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/27/171 and in the similar way as > it is done for CCF by Mike Turquette in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/28/512 Split this into separate refactoring and other change commits - one change per commit. > In addition, such locking scheme allows to have access to the supplier > regulator API from inside child's (consumer) regulator API. I've still not seen any use case articulated for doing this...