From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751249Ab0A3FbT (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:31:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751117Ab0A3FbS (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:31:18 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50292 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751104Ab0A3FbS (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:31:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:26:49 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: LKML , Christoph Hellwig , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch 08/10] drivers/base: Convert dev->sem to mutex Message-ID: <20100130052649.GA22459@suse.de> References: <20100129203549.526478432@linutronix.de> <20100129203613.665951035@linutronix.de> <20100129211358.GA7265@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > 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