Re: [PATCH 0/7] convert semaphore to mutex in struct class

From: Dave Young
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 21:37:40 EST


On Jan 10, 2008 11:41 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Dave Young wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > The patches are done on my side, please help to check.
> >
> > This is the first one of the series about driver core changes.
> > If this one is accepted and there's no other problem I will post the others for maintainer's review (they need your comment and help because I don't know well about the specific driver logic).
>
> Before spending too much time on all these conversions, shouldn't you
> first determine whether they will work with the lockdep checker? In
> one of your earlier messages there was a clear indication that they
> will not.
Thanks.

I managed to build and boot ok with lockdep config options except the
apm_power which need to be cross compiled.

But not sure whether there's something which are not hit yet.
>
> Alan Stern
>
>
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