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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001300003470.5926@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:04:46 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.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 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.

Thanks,

	tglx
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