Re: [PATCH] isapnp driver semaphore to mutex

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Mon Dec 03 2007 - 14:37:00 EST


On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 17:47 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 16:57 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Changed the isapnp semaphore to a mutex.
> > >
> > > cool - i'll give it a whirl.
> > >
> > > small immaterial nit:
> > >
> > > > Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > it's Signed-off-by (note the capitalization). Having this consistent
> > > makes scripting around patches a tiny bit easier.
> >
> > Yeah, I know about it but sometimes still slips by..
>
> it's worth automating these repetative bits. I use small templates when
> creating patches. Also, it's worth running patches through
> scripts/checkpatch.pl - it has a check for exactly this typo. [ Not a
> big issue at all, i just mentioned it in case you get a taste for
> sending more sem2mutex patches :-) ]


These are the patches, and files I've touched so far in case anyone is
working on this .. These are all to be submitted.

unix98-semaphore-to-mutex.patch
linux-2.6.23/drivers/char/tty_io.c
spi-semaphore-to-mutex.patch
linux-2.6.23/drivers/spi/spi.c
au1000-semaphore-to-mutex.patch
linux-2.6.23/drivers/pcmcia/au1000_generic.c
soc_common-semaphore-to-mutex.patch
linux-2.6.23/drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.c
linux-2.6.23/drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.h
qla2xxx-semaphore-to-mutex.patch
linux-2.6.23/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
bcm43xx-semaphore-to-mutex.patch
linux-2.6.23/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_debugfs.c
adb_handler_sem-to-mutex.patch
linux-2.6.23/drivers/macintosh/adb.c

Daniel

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