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From: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
To: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org list"
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@codeaurora.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
	Eric Holmberg <eholmber@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwspinlock/msm: Add support for Qualcomm MSM HW Mutex block
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:58:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B26378B6-0E26-4EBA-A016-854EF2E01F1B@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK=WgbbdY-uZjiO2KBsYGshagykcL0X8PYEByb9K-Wp5R5g+hQ@mail.gmail.com>


On Aug 13, 2013, at 1:01 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> So I think I'd ask you to recommend a name, should we just us 'hwspinlock'.  The general view from ePAPR and dts is the node name should be a bit more generic (like ethernet or pci).  So what would you suggest?
> 
> How about 'hwlock' ?
> 
> This should be generic enough to cover all instances of hardware locks
> (we already know hwspinlock isn't generic enough, as there are some
> mutex-like hardware locks which doesn't require busy looping).

hwlock sounds good to me, I'll go with it.

- k

--
Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation


      reply	other threads:[~2013-08-13 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-29 20:11 Kumar Gala
2013-07-29 20:14 ` Kumar Gala
2013-07-29 21:40   ` Stephen Boyd
2013-07-29 21:54     ` Kumar Gala
2013-07-30  0:28       ` Stephen Boyd
2013-08-01 14:10       ` Kumar Gala
2013-08-10 19:11         ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2013-08-12 16:30           ` Stephen Boyd
2013-08-12 17:00             ` Kumar Gala
2013-08-12 17:24           ` Kumar Gala
2013-08-13  6:01             ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2013-08-13 13:58               ` Kumar Gala [this message]

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