From: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] MBCS: Convert semaphores to the mutex API
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:47:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071025054727.GN9824@traven> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071024211149.2520a4ea.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
El Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:11:49PM -0700 Andrew Morton ha dit:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:08:58 +0200 matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > MBCS: Convert the semaphores algolock, dmareadlock and dmawritelock to the
> > mutex API
>
> Thanks. Has this actually been runtime-tested?
no, i could only test successfull compilation as i don't have the
device
> btw, your patches are in `patch -p2' form:
>
> --- kernel.orig/linux-2.6/drivers/char/mbcs.c
> +++ kernel/linux-2.6/drivers/char/mbcs.c
>
> should have been in `patch -p1' form:
>
> --- linux-2.6/drivers/char/mbcs.c
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/mbcs.c
>
> I'd suggest that you grab and learn
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/ - it takes care of all these
> things for you.
i actually used quilt for this patchset but must have missed
something. thanks for the pointer!
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2007-10-24 17:08 [patch 0/3] MBCS: Convert semaphores to the mutex API matthias.kaehlcke
2007-10-25 4:11 ` Andrew Morton
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