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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 08/10] drivers/base: Convert dev->sem to mutex
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:26:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100130052649.GA22459@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001292246580.5926@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:48:08PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 08:39:02PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > The semaphore is semantically a mutex. Convert it to a real mutex and
> > > clean up all users outside of drivers/base as well.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> 
> Can you take that via your drivers tree or do you want me to push it
> linuswards for .34 ?

I will take it.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-30  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-29 20:38 [patch 00/10] semaphore to mutex conversions Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 01/10] smbfs: Convert server->sem to mutex Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 02/10] hpfs: Convert sbi->hpfs_creation_de " Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 03/10] hpfsplus: Convert tree_lock " Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 04/10] hfs: " Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 05/10] cifs: convert semaphore " Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 06/10] affs: Convert semaphores to mutexes Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:25   ` Al Viro
2010-01-29 22:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-29 23:03     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 23:41     ` Al Viro
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 07/10] usb: gadgetfs: Convert semaphore to mutex Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 21:14   ` Greg KH
2010-01-29 21:48     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:07       ` Greg KH
2010-01-29 23:04         ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-30  5:27           ` Greg KH
2010-01-29 20:39 ` [patch 08/10] drivers/base: Convert dev->sem " Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 21:13   ` Greg KH
2010-01-29 21:48     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-30  5:26       ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-01-29 20:39 ` [patch 09/10] block: drbd: Convert semaphore " Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 20:39 ` [patch 10/10] hwmon: s3c-hwmon: " Thomas Gleixner

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