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hwspinlock/core: simplify 'owner' handling

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Use struct device_driver's owner member instead of asking drivers to
explicitly pass the owner again.

This simplifies drivers and also save some memory, since there's no
point now in maintaining a separate owner pointer per hwspinlock.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <[email protected]>
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Ohad Ben-Cohen 2011-09-05 16:42:36 +03:00
commit e467b64214
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@ -256,18 +256,16 @@ underlying hwspinlock implementation using the hwspin_lock_register() API.
* @ops: vendor-specific hwspinlock handlers
* @id: a global, unique, system-wide, index of the lock.
* @lock: initialized and used by hwspinlock core
* @owner: underlying implementation module, used to maintain module ref count
*/
struct hwspinlock {
struct device *dev;
const struct hwspinlock_ops *ops;
int id;
spinlock_t lock;
struct module *owner;
};
The underlying implementation is responsible to assign the dev, ops, id and
owner members. The lock member, OTOH, is initialized and used by the hwspinlock
The underlying implementation is responsible to assign the dev, ops and id
members. The lock member, OTOH, is initialized and used by the hwspinlock
core.
6. Implementation callbacks