linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] isapnp driver semaphore to mutex

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Message-Id: <1196709928.1568.16.camel@jnielson-xp.ddns.mvista.com>
Date:	Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:25:28 -0800
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux@...mer.net, jonathan@...masters.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isapnp driver semaphore to mutex

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 17:47 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 16:57 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Changed the isapnp semaphore to a mutex.
> > > 
> > > cool - i'll give it a whirl.
> > > 
> > > small immaterial nit:
> > > 
> > > > Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
> > > 
> > > it's Signed-off-by (note the capitalization). Having this consistent 
> > > makes scripting around patches a tiny bit easier.
> > 
> > Yeah, I know about it but sometimes still slips by..
> 
> it's worth automating these repetative bits. I use small templates when 
> creating patches. Also, it's worth running patches through 
> scripts/checkpatch.pl - it has a check for exactly this typo. [ Not a 
> big issue at all, i just mentioned it in case you get a taste for 
> sending more sem2mutex patches :-) ]


These are the patches, and files I've touched so far in case anyone is
working on this .. These are all to be submitted.

unix98-semaphore-to-mutex.patch
	linux-2.6.23/drivers/char/tty_io.c
spi-semaphore-to-mutex.patch
	linux-2.6.23/drivers/spi/spi.c
au1000-semaphore-to-mutex.patch
	linux-2.6.23/drivers/pcmcia/au1000_generic.c
soc_common-semaphore-to-mutex.patch
	linux-2.6.23/drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.c
	linux-2.6.23/drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.h
qla2xxx-semaphore-to-mutex.patch
	linux-2.6.23/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
bcm43xx-semaphore-to-mutex.patch
	linux-2.6.23/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_debugfs.c
adb_handler_sem-to-mutex.patch
	linux-2.6.23/drivers/macintosh/adb.c

Daniel

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