From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Power Management: use mutexes instead of semaphores
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 00:18:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070504001848.94d9b749.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070504070840.GD3234@traven>
On Fri, 4 May 2007 09:08:40 +0200 Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I note that none of these patches added a #include <linux/mutex.h>. Each C
> > file which uses mutexes should do that, rather than relying upon accidental
> > nested includes. I hope you're checking for that.
>
> initially i added the include line (i think at least one patch still
> contains it), but then i realized that in most cases the original code
> doesn't include semaphore.h and i (mis-)interpreted that it should be
> handled the same way (relying upon nested includes) for mutexes.
>
> do you want me to send you a version of the patches containing the
> include?
erm, is OK, I'll make the changes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-04 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-27 8:38 [PATCH 0/5] use mutex instead of semaphore in several drivers Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-27 8:43 ` [PATCH 1/5] Power Management: use mutexes instead of semaphores Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-28 10:42 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-04 5:54 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-04 7:08 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-05-04 7:18 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-04-27 8:45 ` [PATCH 2/5] Kcopyd: use mutex instead of semaphore Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-27 8:48 ` [PATCH 3/5] sysdev: " Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-27 8:50 ` [PATCH 4/5] pvrusb2: " Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-27 13:55 ` Mike Isely
2007-04-27 8:52 ` [PATCH 5/5] scx200: " Matthias Kaehlcke
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