Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:35:00 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>, Jirka Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>,
       Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix bad locking in drivers/base/driver.c
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:10:46AM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote:

> Get rid of semaphore abuse by converting device_driver->unload_sem
> semaphore to device_driver->unloaded completion.
> 
> This should get rid of any confusion as well as save a few bytes in the
> process.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <michael.waychison@sun.com>

Thanks, I've applied this to my trees, and it will show up in the next
-mm releases.

greg k-h
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