linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i2c: update for semaphore to mutex conversion of devices

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Message-Id: <20100309214702.307a1f5a.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:47:02 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
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

Hi Jean,

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:39:50 +0100 Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org> wrote:
>
> > 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!

Yeah, except it scares me a little since device.h currently does not
directly include semaphore.h and the patch that changes the semaphore to
a mutex does not include mutex.h in device.h either ...

I guess that is a problem for Greg, though.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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