[PATCH v3 1/5] phy: Add driver for Exynos MIPI CSIS/DSIM DPHYs

Sylwester Nawrocki s.nawrocki at samsung.com
Fri Jun 28 20:11:31 EST 2013


On 06/28/2013 10:17 AM, Hui Wang wrote:
> On 06/26/2013 11:02 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
>> Add a PHY provider driver for the Samsung S5P/Exynos SoC MIPI CSI-2
>> receiver and MIPI DSI transmitter DPHYs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki at samsung.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>
>> ---
>> Changes since v2:
>>   - adapted to the generic PHY API v9: use phy_set/get_drvdata(),
>>   - fixed of_xlate callback to return ERR_PTR() instead of NULL,
>>   - namespace cleanup, put "GPL v2" as MODULE_LICENSE, removed pr_debug,
>>   - removed phy id check in __set_phy_state().
>> ---
> [...]
>> +
>> +	if (IS_EXYNOS_MIPI_DSIM_PHY_ID(id))
>> +		reset = EXYNOS_MIPI_PHY_MRESETN;
>> +	else
>> +		reset = EXYNOS_MIPI_PHY_SRESETN;
>> +
>> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&state->slock, flags);
>
> Sorry for one stupid question here, why do you use spin_lock_irqsave() 
> rather than spin_lock(),
> I don't see the irq handler will use this spinlock anywhere in this c file.

Yes, there is no chance the PHY users could call the phy ops from within
an interrupt context. Especially now when there is a per phy object 
mutex used in the PHY operation helpers. So I'll replace it with plain 
spin_lock/unlock. Thank you for the review.

Regards,
Sylwester


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