Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755569AbXL2CDl (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:03:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753948AbXL2CDd (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:03:33 -0500 Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com ([64.233.178.246]:59615 "EHLO hs-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753445AbXL2CDc (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:03:32 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ez/QfQgF7RwqW1epixgrZ4iKpSoEggeHQCBammmIbLcEgQTjG23I8WNtXbEX78YZTh0ZXGoL2f+9hJdZyPiblhC6wjK8x2Pje3nnv3ARSYIcqjRN+Hj0JD0PQutM5TBwavZHFrDUd1aQz9HjaeUogO1SvgDufob8dY4OzYEGs7c= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:03:31 +0800 From: "Dave Young" To: "Peter Zijlstra" Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1198893445.6821.108.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071229010157.GB2883@darkstar.te-china.tietoenator.com> <1198891742.6821.98.camel@twins> <1198892544.6821.103.camel@twins> <1198893445.6821.108.camel@twins> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1380 Lines: 44 >From your previous mail >You need to actually boot the kernel to get effective reports from >lockdep, it'll build just fine. I will post the config file and dmesg with lockdep messages after a while. On Dec 29, 2007 9:57 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 09:52 +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > > Hm, actually it's not so hard, but If I resend the 12 patches seems > > like spam to lkml :-). > > > > Of cource, if you all don't mind and it is really needed, I will do that. > > As it stands now I'm quite convinced these patches will make lockdep > scream bloody murder, so these patches would need quite some more work > before they're usable. > > > > > > > Also, I don't think your series is bisectable, ie. 1/12 changes > > > device::sem -> device::mutex, and 12/12 changes a user of it. > > > > Sorry, I don't use git tools now. Could you tell me how to fix it? > > thanks in advance. > > Just ensure that the kernel builds after each applied patch. If you're > using quilt, something like: > > while (quilt push && make) > should finish the whole series. > Thanks a lot. Regards dave > > > -- 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/