From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: stefani@seibold.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change struct flchip_shared spinlock locking into mutex
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:25:52 +0200
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On Monday 02 August 2010, stefani@seibold.net wrote:
> From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
> 
> This patch prevent to schedule while atomic by changing the
> flchip_shared spinlock into a mutex. This should be save since no atomic
> path will use this lock.

I don't know this code well, but the patch looks correct and seems
to be needed.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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