From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:57:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1198893445.6821.108.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a8e1da0712281752q68ec8a98kcc5f84928091a8d2@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 09:52 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> Hm, actually it's not so hard, but If I resend the 12 patches seems
> like spam to lkml :-).
>
> Of cource, if you all don't mind and it is really needed, I will do that.
As it stands now I'm quite convinced these patches will make lockdep
scream bloody murder, so these patches would need quite some more work
before they're usable.
> >
> > Also, I don't think your series is bisectable, ie. 1/12 changes
> > device::sem -> device::mutex, and 12/12 changes a user of it.
>
> Sorry, I don't use git tools now. Could you tell me how to fix it?
> thanks in advance.
Just ensure that the kernel builds after each applied patch. If you're
using quilt, something like:
while (quilt push && make)
should finish the whole series.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-29 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-29 1:01 [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core Dave Young
2007-12-29 1:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-29 1:36 ` Dave Young
2007-12-29 1:40 ` Dave Young
2007-12-29 1:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-29 1:52 ` Dave Young
2007-12-29 1:57 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-12-29 2:03 ` Dave Young
2007-12-29 2:36 ` Dave Young
2007-12-29 4:42 ` Greg KH
2007-12-29 5:06 ` Dave Young
2007-12-29 7:07 ` Dave Young
2007-12-29 17:07 ` Greg KH
2008-01-02 0:54 ` Dave Young
2008-01-02 5:18 ` Greg KH
2008-01-02 5:25 ` David Miller
2008-01-02 7:00 ` Greg KH
2008-01-02 7:52 ` David Miller
2008-01-02 12:39 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-02 13:12 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-02 16:08 ` Alan Stern
2008-01-03 1:00 ` Dave Young
2008-01-02 5:37 ` Dave Young
2007-12-29 22:01 ` Alan Stern
2007-12-30 6:42 ` David Brownell
2007-12-30 12:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-08 16:54 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-01-02 0:58 ` Dave Young
2008-01-02 16:06 ` Alan Stern
2008-01-05 9:30 ` Andrew Morton
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