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Message-ID: <20100309113950.48be08a1@hyperion.delvare> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:39:50 +0100 From: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org> To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> Cc: Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: update for semaphore to mutex conversion of devices On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:36:50 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Jean, > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:25:08 +0100 Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the reminder Stephen. I was only waiting for device_lock() > > to become usable in mainline. Now that it happened, I will take the > > patch above in my i2c tree, and send it to Linus in my next batch. > > Thanks. The include of mutex.h is not actually needed yet as Greg didn't > send the semaphore to mutex change to Linus due to other issues. It will never be needed, and I also removed the include of semaphore.h. The beauty of the new API is that it hides the implementation details from the caller! > The > device_lock/unlock part would be useful, though for when the change does > happen. Of course. -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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