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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 15:01:03 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] struct class sem to mutex converting
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On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:22:31PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> The class_device is already removed, so do the class->sem to mutex converting.

Are you sure this will work?  Have you tried running lockdep to verify
that there are no problems here?  People have tried this in the past
with devices and I don't think it will work here either :(

thanks,

greg k-h