[PATCH v2 1/2] leds: Add support for Palmas LEDs

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:57:50AM -0700, Bryan Wu wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Ian Lartey <ian at slimlogic.co.uk> wrote:

> > +       spinlock_t value_lock;

> I think you don't need this spinlock to protect the value, the mutex is enough.

You need to use a spinlock because values can be set from hard IRQ
context so you can't take a mutex there.  Someone should really factor
this out into the framework in their copious free time, the set and
schedule pattern is very common in drivers.
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