From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Kedar Sovani <kedars@gmail.com>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sem2mutex bdev->bd_sem
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:16:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060112141606.GO3945@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5edf7fc90601120610h70b824ccs9b1ac0fe955dd1b3@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 12 2006, Kedar Sovani wrote:
> Here is an obvious sem2mutex patch for the bd_sem relative to 2.6.15.
>
>
> Kedar.
>
>
> Use mutex instead of semaphore.
>
> Signed-Off-by: Kedar Sovani <ksovani@kernelcorp.com>
Please compile the patches you submit, there are far too many "sem to
mutex" conversion patches being sent that aren't properly tested. And my
eye spots that this is one of them.
--
Jens Axboe
next parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-12 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <5edf7fc90601120610h70b824ccs9b1ac0fe955dd1b3@mail.gmail.com>
2006-01-12 14:16 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-01-12 14:18 ` [PATCH] sem2mutex bdev->bd_sem Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-12 14:19 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <5edf7fc90601120624q46bf0ac6h2b57a09c8ac682ff@mail.gmail.com>
2006-01-12 14:36 ` Jens Axboe
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