From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 13:17:33 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix SAL info mutex handling Message-Id: <20090505131733.GA8112@parisc-linux.org> List-Id: References: <4A0052D9.76EA.0078.0@novell.com> In-Reply-To: <4A0052D9.76EA.0078.0@novell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 01:53:13PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > Using up() on a mutex that wasn't necessarily acquired seems wrong. Yeah, but search the archives, there's a reason for this horrible abuse. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."