Re: [PATCH 1/5] Use mutex instead of semaphore in the Host APdriver

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Jul 30 2007 - 16:10:31 EST


On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:44:37 +0530 (IST) Satyam Sharma wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, John W. Linville wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:50:31PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > >
> > > > [...]
> > > > The Host AP driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API
> > > > instead of the (binary) semaphore.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Is that the same as Acked-by? Or do you disagree with the patch?
> >
> > Just checkin'...
>
> Well, I'm not the maintainer, so didn't think correct to give an
> "Acked-by". "Reviewed-by" generally means I read the patch, and think
> it is correct. Probably could save time for others ...

You should use Acked-by. See Documentation/SubmittingPatches. :)

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~Randy
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