Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

Dave Young
2007-12-29T02:03:41Z

>From your previous mail
>You need to actually boot the kernel to get effective reports from
>lockdep, it'll build just fine.

I will post the config file and dmesg with lockdep messages after a while.

On Dec 29, 2007 9:57 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 09:52 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
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> > Hm, actually it's not so hard, but If I resend the 12 patches seems
> > like spam to lkml :-).
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> > Of cource, if you all don't mind and it is really needed, I will do that.
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> 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.
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> > > 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:
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> while (quilt push && make)
> should finish the whole series.
>
Thanks a lot.

Regards
dave
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