From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932498AbcFBHvc (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2016 03:51:32 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.134]:51455 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932188AbcFBHv3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2016 03:51:29 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Binoy Jayan Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] *** rtl8192u: Replace semaphores with mutexes *** Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 09:52:05 +0200 Message-ID: <3942715.1nlD6bSRMQ@wuerfel> User-Agent: KMail/5.1.3 (Linux/4.4.0-22-generic; KDE/5.18.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1464843475-4870-1-git-send-email-binoy.jayan@linaro.org> References: <1464843475-4870-1-git-send-email-binoy.jayan@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:SjVqrjp0DNFxNvv/J300AZf7KKqPpLt1smXej/oRz0t7qfC5cV3 gV49NWmHxWB+XFrz+cwJ8cLIl2M4P/nx7TLdlUIxPquTf9UFkuj+YcAOQYcApliDLoogKT4 undQyJHbCcypslUg9pUeHACU4V/Rphj32iIW4Z7rukwDbQf3Ml8/W/R0n3n+IUBueHF+bYS J/L0PkCR7k/C5hObPb9mg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:RCD3BDXrf5c=:2o1mj0SC6UAxoUnn8+z7vu Sw0BZOzMfLrRhG9mbIDEaLKCtY9F5181vs7VhEOOQKCsIJQUM1n08c2sM3N1jDZIZXWkhWx+q S/gRCLkY1qmg+hPEUqA+hEwh3wt6hi3mPlM1VQ13TQJCRUIyn5yt+XR6A6kkGlcgK2f85VxuW ksPf8yB5jNwRfXcZKR8cAHC+uofus/xDxywEebP7MaHYAwcCbVda8CU/JHaVBzNG9bX2MjBPz YHk2uzK7Sh5Qh3mV/IjulBNziYxSQsyCstbQ7cFDc+ByKZHjeRyQW0st/ciVbxSYwZGwqMhyO QN0DEGrcCP/dKxF9XYpkNKp/8N3knKuUR42kjhrilVWtHUg1ANQDSzrYiUyX/XG7/nhsTlgWq DQvrMzHpYdp87Pqju/HOHdteTsjyzTa7ha2d8QnnsK75AxW6WooXcqfso/EK92cHbHxU2p9+v Hexf2zAXC/++r9kM52m9O3Z8yB4buZhCs3e4i5ZKiHW1nTTTnlFLUuAYqilt6axCZ+L+TCxW/ BJRNUlGbJrICnRImoERUOfiWOYNl0H/AVpnluDkvYLM90o9p8zmpIX6h/CtgowRV5G7BVmZmS RflSF78nj5uAfFiESJ63YiJpLg56gqqTcPfPWziYzmOHREjc1O1kjaMY40Bj0rgNfh3nFb5Tv 053yjZG92LJYfyMHMKwDoZ3YGymHz6f2i/i0xmdAS13eNuS3T9YSwEJr/acHPVWQdXUUODqvN FCrz7XzbPfafI/Td Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, June 2, 2016 10:27:51 AM CEST Binoy Jayan wrote: > Hi, > > These are a set of patches which removes semaphores from: > > drivers/staging/rtl8192u > > They build correctly (individually and as a whole). > NB: I have not tested this as I do not have the following hardware: > > "RealTek RTL8192U Wireless LAN NIC driver" > > Patches 1-3 look good, Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann I commented on patch 4, which is correct but I think it should be done differently. One more thing that might be helpful to note in the cover letter above is that this is part of a bigger effort to eliminate all semaphores from the kernel. Arnd