Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754672AbYHDJDj (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 05:03:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753206AbYHDJDa (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 05:03:30 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:54400 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753320AbYHDJDa (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 05:03:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 09:45:07 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Rusty Russell Cc: Linus Torvalds , Paul Menage , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox , "Randy.Dunlap" , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from down_trylock() Message-ID: <20080804094507.61b68eba@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200808041757.05323.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> References: <200807291015.02865.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <200808041328.45773.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <200808041757.05323.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1099 Lines: 23 > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/ar7_wdt.c > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/it8712f_wdt.c > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/sc1200wdt.c > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c > down_trylock -> down_try in drivers/watchdog/wdt_pci.c I sent fixes for all of those to the watchdog maintainer in May. The patches are still sitting with the maintainer. They all convert to proper locking rather than sem abuse, clean up all the coding style and fix numerous bugs plus remove BKL requirements. Wim it appears is still trying to get real life stuff sorted out so I think at this point we really need a new watchdog maintainer. (See series of 57 patches "watchdog: Giant scrub" about 19th May) Alan -- 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/