linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] ps3: vuart: fix error path locking

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Message-Id: <1198181630.10713.11.camel@imap.mvista.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:13:49 -0800
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@...sony.com>,
	matthias.kaehlcke@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux@...mer.net, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	kjwinchester@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ps3: vuart: fix error path locking

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 12:06 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:32:25 -0800 Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:04 -0800, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > 
> > > Unfortunately there wasn't enough context in the patch to see
> > > that there is a down() earlier in the routine, and that the patch
> > > does indeed remove an incorrectly placed down().  Here is the
> > > entire routine, marked with what the patch removes.
> > > 
> > 
> > Andrew have you had a chance to review this?
> > 
> 
> Confused.  I did review it: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/18/384

Yeah, but Geoff countered http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/18/409

Do you still think the patch is wrong, given the whole function?

Daniel

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