From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262424AbVCSHMo (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2005 02:12:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262425AbVCSHMo (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2005 02:12:44 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:1456 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262424AbVCSHMm (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2005 02:12:42 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:01:28 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Alan Stern Cc: Kernel development list , Patrick Mochel , Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: Locking changes to the driver-model core Message-ID: <20050319070128.GC22579@kroah.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:58:30PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > Greg KH has said that he would like to remove the bus subsystem rwsem from > the driver model. Here's a proposal for a way to accomplish that. The > proposal is incomplete and requires changing the driver-model API a > little; I'd like to hear people's reactions and get suggestions on ways to > improve it. (There's no patch with example code because it wouldn't be > functional yet.) It all sounds good, and I think that Pat has some code that implements almost all of this already (I've seen some rough versions from him recently.) Hopefully he'll get that all cleaned up and send it out for people to beat up on soon (hint...) thanks, greg k-h