Re: [PATCH 0/7] *** staging: wilc1000: Replace semaphores with mutexes or completions ***

[Binoy Jayan]

On 13 June 2016 at 19:59, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday, June 13, 2016 4:07:32 PM CEST Binoy Jayan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> These are a set of patches which removes semaphores from:
>>
>> drivers/staging/wilc1000
>>
>> These are part of a bigger effort to eliminate all semaphores
>> from the linux kernel.
>>
>> They build correctly (individually and as a whole).
>>
>> NB: The changes are untested
>>
>
> Most of these look really good, but I've commented on what I think
> should be done differently, most importantly using a work_queue
> rather than a completion to replace the semaphore in patch 6.
>
> Maybe you can resend the first five patches after addressing
> my comments so we can get those tested and queued already while
> you look into reworking patch 6. Let me know if that one ends up
> being more complicated than I thought so we can come up with
> a different approach.
>
>         Arnd

Thank you for reviewing the patches thoroughly. I overlooked the
problem with using
completion directly. Thank you for pointing that out. As you have
suggested, I'll rework
on the first 5 patches and work on the last one.

Binoy