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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	linux-driver@qlogic.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qla2xxx: firmware semaphore to mutex
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:08:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080428180846.GX14990@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080428174742.163523860@mvista.com>

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:47:42AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>

I did this one too ... my version had a nice little twist.

> @@ -2813,7 +2814,7 @@ qla2x00_request_firmware(scsi_qla_host_t
>  		blob = &qla_fw_blobs[FW_ISP25XX];
>  	}
>  
> -	down(&qla_fw_lock);
> +	mutex_lock(&qla_fw_lock);
>  	if (blob->fw)
>  		goto out;
>  

This one we can do as:

-       down(&qla_fw_lock);
+       if (mutex_lock_killable(&qla_fw_lock))
+               return NULL;
+


Otherwise, I think our patches are bit-for-bit identical.

-- 
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"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."

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-28 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-28 17:47 [PATCH] qla2xxx: firmware semaphore to mutex Daniel Walker
2008-04-28 18:08 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-04-28 18:57   ` Daniel Walker
2008-04-28 19:04     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-28 19:21       ` Daniel Walker
2008-04-28 19:24         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-28 19:33           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 19:54           ` Daniel Walker
2008-04-28 20:55 ` Andrew Vasquez

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