Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758576AbYAGRZw (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:25:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758166AbYAGRZk (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:25:40 -0500 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:56624 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757474AbYAGRZj (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:25:39 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:25:38 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Stefan Richter cc: Greg KH , , , Dave Young , , , , , , David Brownell , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class In-Reply-To: <47825DC1.3090102@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 506 Lines: 15 On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Stefan Richter wrote: > Semi off-topic: What about struct device.sem? Is there any chance to > rip this out of the driver core and let drivers serialize everything? I > suppose not... There isn't. The core uses that lock. Alan Stern -- 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/