From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756146Ab0CIAAN (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:00:13 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:35532 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756056Ab0CIAAK (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:00:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:59:53 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Linus , Andrew Morton , LKML , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Jean Delvare Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: update for semaphore to mutex conversion of devices Message-ID: <20100308235953.GA7808@kroah.com> References: <20100309102828.18351564.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100309102828.18351564.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:28:28AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > I have been carrying this patch in linux-next for some time and now > mainline needs it. Well, it's not required, but it is nice to have. I didn't merge the "convert the driver core semaphore to a mutex" patch as it was causing too many false-positive lockdep warnings. Hopefully the lockdep core will be tweaked to handle the locking tree that the device core requires and then when that happens, I will merge the patch that will require this fix in order to keep the build from breaking. But for now, it's not a requirement, although, it does make my life easier. thanks, greg k-h