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

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Message-Id: <20100309125037.5a218f22.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:50:37 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: update for semaphore to mutex conversion of
 devices

Hi Greg,

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:59:53 -0800 Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:28:28AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > I have been carrying this patch in linux-next for some time and now
> > mainline needs it.
> 
> Well, it's not required, but it is nice to have.  I didn't merge the
> "convert the driver core semaphore to a mutex" patch as it was causing
> too many false-positive lockdep warnings.

Ah, I missed that, sorry.

Strangely, I was assuming that what was in linux-next would get merged :-)
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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