Re: [PATCH] i2c: update for semaphore to mutex conversion ofdevices
From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Mar 08 2010 - 21:36:38 EST
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:50:37PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:59:53 -0800 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Ah, I missed that, sorry.
>
> Strangely, I was assuming that what was in linux-next would get merged :-)
That is normally the case, but when patches are found to have problems,
due to the testing that happens with linux-next, they can then be not
sent to Linus, right?
That's what happened here, we need more infrastructure to be able to
accept them. I see it as a validation that our development model is
working properly that this happened :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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