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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: update for semaphore to mutex conversion of devices
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:59:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100308235953.GA7808@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100309102828.18351564.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:28:28AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> I have been carrying this patch in linux-next for some time and now
> mainline needs it.

Well, it's not required, but it is nice to have.  I didn't merge the
"convert the driver core semaphore to a mutex" patch as it was causing
too many false-positive lockdep warnings.

Hopefully the lockdep core will be tweaked to handle the locking tree
that the device core requires and then when that happens, I will merge
the patch that will require this fix in order to keep the build from
breaking.

But for now, it's not a requirement, although, it does make my life
easier.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-08 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-08 23:28 [PATCH] i2c: update for semaphore to mutex conversion of devices Stephen Rothwell
2010-03-08 23:59 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-03-09  1:50   ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-03-09  2:27     ` Greg KH
2010-03-09 16:04   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-09  8:25 ` Jean Delvare
2010-03-09 10:36   ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-03-09 10:39     ` Jean Delvare
2010-03-09 10:47       ` Stephen Rothwell

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