linux-kernel - Re: [patch 07/10] usb: gadgetfs: Convert semaphore to mutex

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:27:34 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 07/10] usb: gadgetfs: Convert semaphore to mutex

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:04:46AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:48:36PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 08:38:59PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > > The semaphore data->lock is semantically a mutex. Convert it to a real
> > > > > mutex.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> > > > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> > > > 
> > > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> > > 
> > > Can you take that via your usb tree or do you want me to push it
> > > linuswards for .34 ?
> > 
> > I tried to do this last time the patches were posted, but the core mutex
> > changes were not in Linus's tree yet, so I could not as it broke my
> > build.
> > 
> > Has this changed?  If so, I would be glad to do so.  If not, I can't :(
> 
> The two patches have no dependencies on anything else. They just
> convert to the existing mutex infrastructure.

Oops, I was thinking this was the same as the last type of patches that
went out.  I'll queue these up in my tree and send them to Linus for
.34.

thanks,

greg k-h
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