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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] locking/mutex: Clean up mutex.h
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To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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On 2/13/24 06:28, Waiman Long wrote:
> 
> On 2/11/24 18:28, George Stark wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Excuse me, this is my 4th letter here since December 2023 and there's 
>> no response unfortunately.
>>
>>
>> Just to recall that we had the discussion in December 2023 about 
>> implementing devm_mutex_init. We came to conclusion that the only 
>> effective way to do it in include/linux/mutex.h but mutex.h requires
>> some cleanups to simplify the devm_mutex_init patch.
>> mutex.h owners proposed such a cleanup patch themselves and there's no 
>> progress since that. How can we move forward on those patches?
>>
>> Cleanup patch:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231216013656.1382213-1-longman@redhat.com/
>>
>> Original problem that requires devm_mutex_init and discussion:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZcZeRmVjEPhVPW9-@smile.fi.intel.com/T/#m0f514f8f96e18db9568f84b2df37aaf648874a4a
> 
> Sorry for my late reply. My cleanup patch was sent at the later half of 
> Dec 2023. It is probably not a good time as maintainers are either busy 
> or taking time off. I have resent the patch again with other cleanup 
> patches. Hopefully those patches can be merged soon.

Hello Waiman.

Good to see you again. I'm sorry if I was too impatient. Thanks for 
updating your patch series.

> 
> Cheers,
> Longman
> 

-- 
Best regards
George