From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754029AbXJYEMN (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:12:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761537AbXJYELz (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:11:55 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:39926 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761491AbXJYELy (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:11:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:11:49 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] MBCS: Convert semaphores to the mutex API Message-Id: <20071024211149.2520a4ea.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20071024170858.GH9824@traven> References: <20071024170858.GH9824@traven> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:08:58 +0200 matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com wrote: > MBCS: Convert the semaphores algolock, dmareadlock and dmawritelock to the > mutex API Thanks. Has this actually been runtime-tested? btw, your patches are in `patch -p2' form: --- kernel.orig/linux-2.6/drivers/char/mbcs.c +++ kernel/linux-2.6/drivers/char/mbcs.c should have been in `patch -p1' form: --- linux-2.6/drivers/char/mbcs.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/mbcs.c I'd suggest that you grab and learn http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/ - it takes care of all these things for you.