Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759576AbYAJPl2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:41:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756299AbYAJPlR (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:41:17 -0500 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:41168 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755849AbYAJPlQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:41:15 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Dave Young cc: Greg KH , Stefan Richter , , SCSI development list , , , , Kernel development list , David Brownell , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class In-Reply-To: <20080110094843.GA3014@darkstar.te-china.tietoenator.com> 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: 847 Lines: 20 On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Dave Young wrote: > Hi, > The patches are done on my side, please help to check. > > This is the first one of the series about driver core changes. > If this one is accepted and there's no other problem I will post the others for maintainer's review (they need your comment and help because I don't know well about the specific driver logic). Before spending too much time on all these conversions, shouldn't you first determine whether they will work with the lockdep checker? In one of your earlier messages there was a clear indication that they will not. 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/