From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:41:32 +0100 Message-ID: <20080103074132.GA2000@ff.dom.local> References: <20080103055019.GA4885@darkstar.te-china.tietoenator.com> <20080103070609.GA1677@ff.dom.local> <20080103072404.GB1677@ff.dom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:51118 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752216AbYACHfm (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2008 02:35:42 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so2617697ugc.16 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:35:39 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Young Cc: gregkh@suse.de, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, peterz@infradead.org, david-b@pacbell.net, davem@davemloft.net, krh@redhat.com, stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, a.zummo@towertech.it, cbou@mail.ru, dwmw2@infradead.org, khali@linux-fr.org, i2c@lm-sensors.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:21:36PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: ... > I don't know if there's other possible warning places with this mutex > or not, if you have any ideas about this, please tell me. I think lockdep is just to tell such things. So, the question is, how much it was tested already, because if there are many warnings reported e.g. after merging to -mm, then this could be better to re-do it this other way... But, I hope this will not be necessary. Jarek P.