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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 01:01:13 -0800
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On Monday 07 January 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> Most of the non-driver core code should be converted to not use the
> lock in the class at all. ?They should use a local lock instead.

Or better yet, that yet-to-be-written class_for_each_instance()
iterator ... :)

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