Return-path: Received: from mms3.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.19]:3805 "EHLO MMS3.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752479Ab1HHMq4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2011 08:46:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4E3FDAB4.7000200@broadcom.com> (sfid-20110808_144700_349464_7DE6B22E) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 14:46:44 +0200 From: "Arend van Spriel" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "gregkh@suse.de" cc: "Dan Carpenter" , "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/35] staging: brcm80211: use mutex instead of semaphore in dhd_linux.c References: <1310678971-28952-1-git-send-email-frankyl@broadcom.com> <1310678971-28952-19-git-send-email-frankyl@broadcom.com> <20110801115430.GH5575@shale.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20110801115430.GH5575@shale.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/01/2011 01:54 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 02:29:14PM -0700, Franky Lin wrote: >> From: Arend van Spriel >> >> The semaphore proto_sem has been replaced with mutex proto_block >> which lock certain code paths for one thread. >> > This one doesn't apply any more after the 3.1 merge window. > > It was modified in 1380516599 "Merge branch 'staging-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6" > > regards, > dan carpenter Hi Greg, Not sure what your plan is with our pending patches, but given the feedback from Dan could you drop all of them so I can resubmit them. Gr. AvS -- Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. -- H.P. Lovecraft --