Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753947AbXLCTg6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:36:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752545AbXLCTgv (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:36:51 -0500 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:50283 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752310AbXLCTgu (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:36:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] isapnp driver semaphore to mutex From: Daniel Walker To: Ingo Molnar Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@bohmer.net, jonathan@jonmasters.org In-Reply-To: <20071203164751.GB16135@elte.hu> References: <20071203153743.119714913@mvista.com> <20071203155753.GA32546@elte.hu> <1196697144.1568.1.camel@jnielson-xp.ddns.mvista.com> <20071203164751.GB16135@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:25:28 -0800 Message-Id: <1196709928.1568.16.camel@jnielson-xp.ddns.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-4.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1876 Lines: 52 On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 17:47 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Daniel Walker wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 16:57 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > * Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > > > > Changed the isapnp semaphore to a mutex. > > > > > > cool - i'll give it a whirl. > > > > > > small immaterial nit: > > > > > > > Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker > > > > > > it's Signed-off-by (note the capitalization). Having this consistent > > > makes scripting around patches a tiny bit easier. > > > > Yeah, I know about it but sometimes still slips by.. > > it's worth automating these repetative bits. I use small templates when > creating patches. Also, it's worth running patches through > scripts/checkpatch.pl - it has a check for exactly this typo. [ Not a > big issue at all, i just mentioned it in case you get a taste for > sending more sem2mutex patches :-) ] These are the patches, and files I've touched so far in case anyone is working on this .. These are all to be submitted. unix98-semaphore-to-mutex.patch linux-2.6.23/drivers/char/tty_io.c spi-semaphore-to-mutex.patch linux-2.6.23/drivers/spi/spi.c au1000-semaphore-to-mutex.patch linux-2.6.23/drivers/pcmcia/au1000_generic.c soc_common-semaphore-to-mutex.patch linux-2.6.23/drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.c linux-2.6.23/drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.h qla2xxx-semaphore-to-mutex.patch linux-2.6.23/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c bcm43xx-semaphore-to-mutex.patch linux-2.6.23/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_debugfs.c adb_handler_sem-to-mutex.patch linux-2.6.23/drivers/macintosh/adb.c Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/