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Message-Id: <200808042143.57174.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 21:43:56 +1000
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from down_trylock()
On Monday 04 August 2008 18:45:07 you wrote:
> > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/ar7_wdt.c
> > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/it8712f_wdt.c
> > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/sc1200wdt.c
> > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c
> > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/wdt_pci.c
>
> I sent fixes for all of those to the watchdog maintainer in May. The
> patches are still sitting with the maintainer. They all convert to proper
> locking rather than sem abuse, clean up all the coding style and fix
> numerous bugs plus remove BKL requirements.
>
> Wim it appears is still trying to get real life stuff sorted out so I
> think at this point we really need a new watchdog maintainer.
Perhaps if noone steps forward soon you should shepherd them through
linux-next for the next merge window?
Rusty.
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