linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fusion MPT: Convert inactive_list

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Date:	Mon, 5 May 2008 17:52:39 +0200
From:	Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@...hlcke.net>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	Eric.Moore@....com, support@....com, DL-MPTFusionLinux@....com,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fusion MPT: Convert inactive_list_mutex in a mutex

El Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:28:37AM -0500 James Bottomley ha dit:

> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 17:21 +0200, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > El Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:26:06AM -0500 James Bottomley ha dit:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 20:05 +0200, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > > > MPT Fusion: The semaphore inactive_list_mutex is used as a
> > > > mutex. Convert it to the mutex API
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@...hlcke.net>
> > > 
> > > Um, it would at least vaguely help if you checked the tree; even
> > > actually trying to apply the patch would have told you.  I know the
> > > email notifications from scsi misc can sometimes get lost.
> > > 
> > > commit ed5f606fef22e515331aab4c1f927775cf4af70e
> > > Author: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@...hlcke.net>
> > > Date:   Sun Mar 9 12:16:27 2008 +0100
> > > 
> > >     [SCSI] mpt fusion: convert inactive_list_mutex to a mutex
> > 
> > apologizes for my ignorance, which tree exactly should i have checked
> > for this patch? is it linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git? 
> 
> It's in the released kernel and has been there for the past two weeks.

i actually missed the mail notification and worked with outdated copy
of linus' tree ...

thanks for your patience and sorry for making you loose your time

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Matthias Kaehlcke
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