From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from down_trylock()
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 21:43:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808042143.57174.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080804094507.61b68eba@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Monday 04 August 2008 18:45:07 you wrote:
> > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/ar7_wdt.c
> > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/it8712f_wdt.c
> > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/sc1200wdt.c
> > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c
> > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/wdt_pci.c
>
> I sent fixes for all of those to the watchdog maintainer in May. The
> patches are still sitting with the maintainer. They all convert to proper
> locking rather than sem abuse, clean up all the coding style and fix
> numerous bugs plus remove BKL requirements.
>
> Wim it appears is still trying to get real life stuff sorted out so I
> think at this point we really need a new watchdog maintainer.
Perhaps if noone steps forward soon you should shepherd them through
linux-next for the next merge window?
Rusty.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-04 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-29 0:15 [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from down_trylock() Rusty Russell
2008-07-29 0:27 ` Paul Menage
2008-07-29 13:01 ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-29 16:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-07-29 23:56 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-01 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 17:40 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-03 8:33 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-03 13:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-03 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-03 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-04 3:28 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-04 5:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-04 7:57 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-04 8:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-04 11:43 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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