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Clocklib: generic clocks management framework

From:  Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
To:  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject:  [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Clocklib: generic clocks management framework
Date:  Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:19:54 +0400
Message-ID:  <20080608091954.GA11200@doriath.ww600.siemens.net>
Cc:  akpm@linux-foundation.org, Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, pHilipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, tony@atomide.com, paul@pwsan.com, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
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Hi,

Here is second attempt to introduce clocks management framework based on
kobjects. This attempt goes a bit further. I've removed the global
spinlock. All add/remove operations are guarded via built into clocks kset
spinlock. And all per-clock operations are guided by built-in atomic
counter variable. I can split it into counter and per-clock spinlock,
but I think it will be a waste of space.

Also as suggested by Andrew Morton, I've split the set_mode operation
back to enable/disable.

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry


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