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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
<dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>,
<linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
<peterz@infradead.org>, <cbou@mail.ru>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, <krh@redhat.com>,
<rtc-linux@googlegroups.com>,
<spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net>,
<linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
<davem@davemloft.net>, <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:25:38 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0801071224200.2748-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47825DC1.3090102@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Semi off-topic: What about struct device.sem? Is there any chance to
> rip this out of the driver core and let drivers serialize everything? I
> suppose not...
There isn't. The core uses that lock.
Alan Stern
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-07 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-03 5:50 Dave Young
2008-01-03 7:06 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-03 7:24 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-03 7:21 ` Dave Young
2008-01-03 7:41 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-06 18:41 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-07 2:09 ` Dave Young
2008-01-07 8:45 ` Greg KH
2008-01-07 9:01 ` David Brownell
2008-01-07 13:23 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-07 14:00 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-07 16:36 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-07 15:44 ` Greg KH
2008-01-07 17:13 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-07 17:20 ` Greg KH
2008-01-08 7:05 ` Dave Young
2008-01-08 22:48 ` Greg KH
2008-01-09 1:32 ` Dave Young
2008-01-09 6:13 ` Dave Young
2008-01-09 6:37 ` Dave Young
2008-01-09 6:39 ` Dave Young
2008-01-10 9:48 ` Dave Young
2008-01-10 12:34 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-11 2:18 ` Dave Young
2008-01-10 13:23 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-01-11 2:33 ` Dave Young
2008-01-11 8:23 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-01-11 8:53 ` Dave Young
2008-01-10 15:41 ` Alan Stern
2008-01-11 2:37 ` Dave Young
2008-01-10 18:39 ` Greg KH
2008-01-11 2:40 ` Dave Young
2008-01-07 17:25 ` Alan Stern [this message]
2008-01-07 10:00 ` Dave Young
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